The Constitution is law. It's not a set of improving messages chiselled on the wall of our national consciousness.
CHARLES FRIED.
US Solicitor-General
On the bicentennial of the American Constitution, an occasion tarnished by public scandal. Lord Rawlinson of Ewell examines the rifts between Executive and Congress, and the new political significance of the Supreme Court.
With CHARLES FRIED; Associate Justice LEWIS POWELL ;
Chief Justice WARREN BURGER ;
ARCHIBALD cox, Solicitor-General to President Kennedy; historian ARTHUR SCHLESINGER ; and LLOYD CUTLER , Counsel to President Carter
Producer MICHAEL STEVENSON