n this bicentennial year of the Constitutional Convention it
is particularly appropriate that the Seventy-third American
Assembly， cosponsored by the Commission on Public Under-
standing About the Law of the American Bar Association，
should have focused on the adequacy of our present constitu-
tional structure in the light of rapid change over the last two
centuries and of persistent and increasingly complex domestic
and foreign problems. For the last twenty-five years， doubts
about the present political structure and various proposals to
change it have been raised. Some would alter the terms of the
president and members of the Senate and House of Represen-
tatives， or make changes in the roles of Congress and the
executive branch on foreign policy matters. Others have pro-
posed a more radical move toward something approximating
parliamentary government:
The American Assembly discussions focused on such issues
and on the present relationship between the central govern-
ment and the states. On April 23， 1987， the Assembly brought
together at Arden House distinguished participants from vari-
ous sectors of our society. They discussed an agenda prepared
by Professor Burke Marshall of Yale University and developed
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