How did your lack of historical context impact your first reading? Did you have to guess at the time period and world events? How close did you come to arriving at the right conclusion? How does the exact date (not just general time period) impact an understanding of the speaker’s goal? How might it be different if the speech was given a few years before or a few years after?

How important is your own background knowledge in understanding this speech fully? What do you already know about this time period from your own study of history? Is there any personal knowledge you could bring to your understanding of the speech?

In general, how did your appreciation for (and understanding of) this speech change when you had the information needed to fully analyze it?

What rhetorical strategies does the speaker/writer use in crafting the speech?

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in the united states, the president is controlled by the

constitution, and in all respects subordinate to it. insofar

as it deals with presidential power, however, the american

constitution has proved to be a highly malleable document.

with very few exceptions,' the constitutional provisions relating to the president have not been changed at all since

they were ratified in 1787. but in the late twentieth century, those provisions do not mean what they meant in

1787. the constitution is a legal document, and it is enforced judicially; but its meaning was hardly fixed when it

was ratified. in particular, the contemporary president has

far broader powers than the original constitution contemplated. it is remarkable but true that large-scale changes in

the authority of the president have been brought about

without changes in the constitutional text, but nevertheless

without significant illegality.

this is a paradox. is it not clear that constitutional

changes, if not textual, are illegal? the paradox has considerable relevance to our current thinking about the presidency in particular and about constitutionalism in general.

perhaps the framers of the american constitution feared

legislative power most of all; 2 but from well-known events

in the twentieth century, it is possible to conclude that it is

presidential power that holds out the greatest risks to both

liberty and democracy. the president is by far the most visible leader in the nation; he is often the only person in government with a national constituency. moreover, he is

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