![]() For example, he remarks that the system of checks and balances is a remarkable innovation, even if it sometimes seems that presidential actions-as with military intervention in Vietnam and elsewhere-go unchecked. Happily, Hennessey is aware of the truly radical origins of the Constitution, even as he notes its conservative strains. ![]() ![]() Why have a Constitution to begin with? Because, remarks film and TV writer Hennessey-who, even if his prose is bound by balloons, turns out to be quite the Constitutional scholar-the founding fathers were keenly aware that civil rights were never formally written down in Britain, “and that deeply troubled the framers.” That’s as much of an establishing conflict as is needed for a superhero piece, and Hennessey, paired with artist McConnell, does a fine job of turning the making of the document, despite all the dull stretches in the Constitutional Convention that James Madison recorded in his diary, into a drama. ![]() A searching interpretation of that sonorous document the Constitution, with cartoons. ![]()
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