President Obama is set to give his speech at the National Archives, standing in front of the display case where rare original printings of the Constitution are exhibited to the public–in dim light behind thick protective glass. Can it be good for those ancient pieces of paper that television klieg lights are now blazing on them for the president’s oration?
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Matthew J. Franck is a senior fellow at the Witherspoon Institute, a senior contributing editor of Public Discourse, a lecturer in politics at Princeton University, and professor emeritus of political science at Radford University.
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