JONATHAN TURLEY: Real crisis isn’t the Constitution, it’s elites who want to scrap it

“I am very angry.” These words were from Harvard University’s law, Michael Clarman, as a cheapness in our discussion at the University of Colgate last week on whether our country was in a “constitutional crisis”.

I took the positive position, Clarman criticized what he called “radical, radical authoritarianism in ancient white superiority.” Drawing the similes to Nazi Germany, the president denounced Donald Trump And his supporters “fascists” while summoning the factors of “thugs” camps “that work” where immigrants are subjected to “torture”.

When I noticed that Clarman was showing a license what he called “the Age of anger”, he agreed easily: “I am angry.” He said he wanted to “show anger” because the constitutional system “does not work” and that he speaks “for your warnings … to put people from their thinnest.”

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Like many law professors today, Clarman asked about the feasibility of our constitutional system. However, what he described was not a constitutional crisis but a crisis of faith.

Last year, the New York Times condemned the “worship of the constitution”, adding that “the Americans have long assumed that constitution It can save us as a growing choir now if we need to save it. “

There is already an increasing choir of faculty members calling us to cancel our constitutional system:

• Corrie Bretsnider of Brown University described the constitution as a “dangerous document” that leads this “threat to democracy.”
• George Washington’s law professor Marie Ann Franx condemned the “worship of the constitution”, which she said was used to pay “the superiority of white males.”
• In a column entitled “The Constitution is broken and should not be restored,” Ryan d. Durfar from Harvard and Samuel Muen, we need to “restore America from constitutionality”.
• In his book, the law argued in Berkeley, Dean of Irwin Kemerski, in his book, “There is no democracy that lasts forever: how the constitution threatens the United States”, the constitution now argues a danger to democracy.

In many news programs, the constitution is increasingly rejected as a “trash” and a repression.

The combating constitutional movement is spreading in the academic circles, and it is nourished by the election results and the provisions of the court that challenges the progressive demands. The conclusion of many in the institution: the system itself is broken and must be disposed of. (Istock)

This anti -allergic movement Publication in academic circlesWhich is fueled by the election results and the court rulings that challenge the progressive demands. The conclusion of many in the institution: the system itself is broken and must be disposed of.

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For law students, this has become the academic resonance room in which they learn. To support the constitution – or reject the “crisis” – is to call for ridicule and revenge. This indicates that the most successful constitutional system in history is nothing but a failed experience that is now viewed as naive.

Unlike other countries associated with a common language or culture, we are a united nation through the legacy of ideas – a revolutionary belief in a free people linking a simple constitution.

In my next book, “Anger and the Republic: The incomplete story of the American revolution“ I discuss this crisis of faith and the risks it provides to American democracy in the twenty -first century.

After years of engaging in such discussions, it may cause losses. Sometimes, it seems as if less people understand the great gift that orders have given us in this unique document.

In our discussion, Clarman reminded the students that the constitution is just “words on paper” if it is not working properly. But it’s more. It is an era for a people with each other; The leap of faith in the system of survival of wars, Economic crises And social disturbances for more than two centuries.

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After Colgate, I did not return directly to Washington. Another one has stopped: Grand Lake, ColoradoWhere I was invited to give the title of the Constitution Day.

The city, which is located in the Rocky Mountains, celebrates the annual celebration. The invitation to me – he said they might be a small city, but they really believed in a big thing: the US constitution.

The scene of John Harvard statue on the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts on October 8, 2024. (Maadi Mayer)

I arrived near the middle of the night, and two weeks after the road, I wondered about my decision to make the trip. The next morning, I am still worn out, I joined the offer before the letter.

What I found was exactly what I needed. The entire city has turned, and visitors joined it from distant places such as WyomingTo exchange their love for our nation and her constitution.

Facimile of the US Constitution, on September 17, 1787. (Fotosearch/Getty Images)

Before we started, I met three young children wearing revolutionary clothes and carried American flags. They were part of Fif Five and local drum.

We walked on the main street while families lined up on the sidewalks, chanting the constitution. Passion on horseback carrying flags, and the signs of go while the neighbors were chanting the neighbors. There was no anger. No anger. Just gratitude.

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I know that this account will make fun of the back east because some vulgar version of American homes. But living in Washington, one can easily surrender to ridicule and tribal politics. Patriotism It is at best a sound bite for politicians to feed what they refuse to be “rough in remote areas.”

Each generation has its perception – the belief that its problems are unique and require new radical measures. But these voices are the same as we heard centuries ago. They are the sounds of anger.

In our controversy, Clarman confirmed that he was not inviting all voters Trump. He said that many are simply unaware and “do not read newspapers.” He added that any students did not attend a protest in the past eight months, in fact, attached to the rise of tyranny.

Another possibility suggested: Most citizens do not agree with the political, academic and media elite. They are not idiots, but people who see something in the academic circles no longer see – or refuse to see it.

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I respect that Clarman responds to the things that he sees threatening and strike more vulnerable to society. However, at Harvard University, where a handful of conservative faculty members remains only, it is easy for students to conclude that such opinions are a fact that cannot be provided.

He graduated from the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts in an indisputable form. (Getty Images)

Outside Cambridge, Massachusetts and Washington, there is a complete nation that still believes in the constitution. This is why this journey was renewing the youth for me. Many professors of law today, such as the priests who lost their faith, but kept their Ardia. They are going out in a system for their failure to fulfill their demands, and in one of the voters they refuse to submit to their collective wisdom.

The Capitol building appears in the United States in Washington, DC, on September 16, 2025 (Celel Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Walking in the city later, I came across two boys near the wing. They have eagerly described their candy distances and were unable to wait for fireworks that night. When I turned to go, someone stopped me: “I got this.” He proudly withdrawn the pocket constitution. His younger brother quickly objected: “We share it.”

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As a nation, we still share it after more than two centuries. He introduces us as a people. Unlike other countries associated with a common language or culture, we are a united nation through the legacy of ideas – a revolutionary belief in a free people linking a simple constitution.

It was difficult to leave Grand Lake, but I only felt better to know such places that still exist.

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