Word: amendmenteers
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Why should we so completely lose ourselves in admiration of the Fathers, so glorify their wisdom and courage, by confessing that we are weak and foolish, and by demonstrating our timidity? If the Fathers had lacked the moral courage to consider even the question of the practicability and desirability of...
The Congress will not propose any amendment of importance--a glance at history and even a hurried view of present conditions surely must banish every doubt about that. It is a generation since the Congress proposed any amendment, and yet there has been ceaseless agitation for amendment.
There is but one way to amend the Constitution, or even to real, sooer consideration of the subject of amendment, and that is through the action of State Legislatures, moving upon the Congress for a Constitutional Convention.
No amendment can be made so long as so many--I might say rew--as twelve States withhold their endorsement. Should not this pregnant fact alone be sufficient to banish the fears of the timid, resolve the doubts of those who are undecided, and stimulate the courage and arouse the...
Even if the Convention were to come and go without a single change in the Constitution, still it would not have been created in vain. A centring of thought upon the Constitution and upon propositions for amendment, and their serious consideration, sure to attend and follow the amendment movement, could...