Symposium on the Genius of the United States Constitution: Franklin, Washington, and a New Nation.

I am deeply grateful for your decision to confer an honorary degree upon me today. And I am delighted that you have invited me to address you on the occasion of your commencement. Let me congratulate you on allthat you have achieved. You have the special privilege of commencing in the year of the Constitution's Bicentennial—and within several thousand yards of the Constitution itself—a document that travelled by stagecoach, at 11:00 in the morning on September 18, 1787, from Philadelphia.