The state constitution is not a place to implement permanent limitations that are sure to have major long-term consequences.

It's complicated. There are too many unanswered questions and it's moving too quickly. We're worried about unintended consequences.

" Ah, this is the constitution," he said. "Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuous people, this instument will bind us together in mutual interests, mutual welfare, and mutual happiness. But when we become old and corrupt, it will bind no longer."

Ah, this is the constitution," he said. "Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuous people, this instument will bind us together in mutual interests, mutual welfare, and mutual happiness. But when we become old and corrupt, it will bind no longer.

There are great virtues in a conservative attitude towards structural features of government. The sudden abandonment of institutions is an act that reverberates in ways no one can predict and many come to regret.

There is one transcendant advantage belonging to the province of the State governments... --I mean the ordinary administration of criminal and civil justice.