The Invisible Constitution Summary

Laurence H. Tribe is a critically acclaimed author and professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard. His speech at the Ford Hall Forum was a summarization of his book “The Invisible Constitution.” In it, Tribe proposes a new way at looking at the Constitution we have come to worship. More than a tangible document, the true power of the Constitution is the series of implications that exist in it; the “invisible” aspects.
He began his speech by noting that the physical Constitution we have seen, isn’t the one that was truly ratified, however this mistake makes no difference in the way we run our lives, furthermore proving how irrelevant the document is. To illustrate additional laws in the Constitution, Tribe brings up the example that no state