Constitutional Minute
The very idea of amendments –– part 1 of 3
Heed the words of Daniel Webster in his 4th of July Oration, 1802: “The politician that undertakes to improve a Constitution with as little thought as a farmer sets about mending his plow is no master of his trade. If that Constitution be a systematic one, if it be a free one, its parts are so necessarily connected that an alteration in one will work an…