Maybe the right way to think about the Constitution is not as a legal
document at all, not as a lease or a will or something like that.
Instead, think of it as poetry. As a poem, or symphony. And if you
think about it that way, it can be a symbol that unites the country.
So everybody is in favor of providing for the common defense and the
general welfare. Everybody is in favor of equality and liberty. That’s
what the Constitution stands for.