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Constitution's Birthday
Important To Minorities

HAROLD NORRIS

Special to The Jewish News

Without the Support of this
Community, Our Success this past

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May the coming year be
one filled with health, happiness
and prosperity for all our
riends, Family and Customers.

Futuristic furnishings Inc.

Andrew D. Sallan

FRIDAY, SHPT 25, 1987

Scott P. Dresner

ustice Oliver Wendell
Holmes once wrote
that "the Constitution
was meant for people with
fundamentally differing
views." Indeed, the motto of
our nation is "E Pluribus
Unum," out of many, one; out
of many states, one nation;
out of much difference and
diversity, one country. May I
suggest that we the people of
the United States, over the
last 200 years, have been
evolving a national purpose
beyond that stated in the
preamble, namely, the
building of a national com-
munity that is multi-
religious, multi-national,
multi-racial, a national corn-
munity composed of a world of
difference. We have been
building, not always peaceful-
ly, a "united nations" within
one nation.
We are a nation of dif-
ference. Franklin Roosevelt
once observed: "We are all
descended from immigrants
and revolutionaries." We ex-
press many different political
beliefs. We note huge dif-
ferences in wealth, income,
and class. We live in different
regions. There are many dif-
ferent cultures and
languages. We have dif-
ferences in art, taste, enter-
tainment, hope, vision. In-
•deed, we try to promote and
protect the right to be dif-
ferent.
"Above all," said Walt Whit-
man, "is individuals." We

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Harold Norris is professor of con-
stitutional law at the Detroit College
of Law. This column was excerpted
from a speech before the Jewish
Historical Society of Michigan.

pride ourselves on promoting
the maximum freedom for the
individual. We promote the
right for each to be different
from any majority and defend
any minority from being con-
strained or harmed by any
majority. Within this conti-
nent of difference there is one
thing alone that is common to
all Americans — the Con-
stitution. The Constitution of
the United States is our com-
mon heritage. We are related
to each other by the Constitu-

"The most
comprehensive
right of civilized
man is the right to
be left alone."
Louis Brandeis

tion. The Constitution is our
code of community relations.
The Constitution is our rule
of law. Indeed, there are only
two ways to govern — either
by rule of law or the rule of
men, the rule of controlled
power or uncontrolled power,
the rule of constitutionalism
or rule of ambition, vanity,
money or force.
I have three possibly pro-
vocative propositions. First,
the principles and processes
of American constitu-
tionalism are good for the
liberty and security of all
Americans, and especially
good for the liberty and
security of all minorities, in-
cluding American Jewry.
Second, that there has been
developing during the years
following World War II, even
with increasing protectin of
some civil rights, an "ex-
traconstitutional" mentality
that is very bad for the liber-
ty and security of all
Americans and especially bad