Monday, March 26, 2012

Washington Called on Posterity to Change Constitution

What would the forefathers think of us tampering with their Constitution? Take George, for example. What would he think?

"The warmest friends and the best supports the constitution has," Washington wrote in a letter in 1787, "do not contend that it is free from imperfections; but they found them unavoidable, and are sensible, if evil is likely to arise therefrom, the remedy must come hereafter; for in the present moment it is not to be obtained; and, as there is a constitutional door open for it, I think the people (for it is with them to judge), can, as they will have the advantage of experience on their side, decide with as much propriety on the alterations and amendments which are necessary, as ourselves. I do not think we are more inspired, have more wisdom, or possess more virtue, than those who will come after us."

Perhaps, then, to some degree, in order to preserve the greatness of the founding fathers, we need to be equal to them, not buried with them.

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