Wednesday, March 28, 2012

‘We the People’ Loses Appeal With People Around the World - NYTimes.com

‘We the People’ Loses Appeal With People Around the World - NYTimes.com:

"Other nations routinely trade in their constitutions wholesale, replacing them on average every 19 years. By odd coincidence, Thomas Jefferson, in a 1789 letter to James Madison, once said that every constitution 'naturally expires at the end of 19 years' because 'the earth belongs always to the living generation.'”

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