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Parlor Game, Philip Chase Bobbitt
Parlor Game, Philip Chase Bobbitt
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The Constitution is not perfect. Indeed I don't know what 'perfection' is in a constitution, since it is an instrument for human hands and thus must bear within its possibilities all the potential for misuse that comes with the user. What I am sure of is that 'perfection' does not mean 'never needs to be amended,' since one important part of the Constitution is its provision for amendment (although I am inclined to believe that few of the amendments to the U.S. constitution were actually necessary.)
That said, a competition to find the "stupidest provision of the Constitution" is, to …