The Constitution of the United States can never be out of date.
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In 1926, Calvin Coolidge, a Vermont native and one of our most underrated presidents, delivered an address commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. He emphasized the Declaration’s “finality”. In answer to those who attributed America’s success to “new thoughts and new experiences”, therefore justifying the replacement of the Declaration’s political conclusions with “something more modern”, Coolidge argued that that reasoning cannot be applied to this great charter [because]: If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people.
Coolidge, a man of considerable classical learning, praised not only the Declaration’s principles but the constitutional devices such as popular representation, federalism, separation of powers, and checks and balances by which the founders aimed to effectuate them.