The method of constitutional amendment

Amendment by the legislature is inappropriate A … government … cannot have the right of altering itself. If it had, it would be arbitrary. It might make itself what it pleased and wherever such a right is set up, it shows there is no constitution. —Thomas Paine. The...

The need for regular amendment

Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment … But I know also,...

Safeguards protecting the rule of law

All the elements of the rule of law described in Chapter 2 should be enshrined in the constitution. The Supreme Court’s perversion of the United States Constitution’s due process clause to expand its power in precise opposition to the rule of law demonstrates the...