Legal Commentary

As Paul already mentioned, Yale is hosting a conference on "The Constitution in 2020."  As it happens, yesterday was "Constitution Day",, and the 222nd birthday of the Constitution of 1787.  Give it a read, if you haven't recently:

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. . . .

Then there's this, somewhat sobering, thought, from one Alexis de Tocqueville:  "In examining the Constitution of the United States, which is the most perfect constitution that ever existed, one is startled at the variety of information and the amount of discernment that it presupposes in the people whom it is meant to govern. . . ."