Desiring Machine

For the “constitutionalists”, strict constructionists, and anyone who would desire to reify our founding institutions.

“I think it would be better to wind up [the settlement of a new constitution] as quickly as possible, to consider it as a mere experiment to be amended hereafter when time and trial shall show where it is imperfect.”
~Thomas Jefferson to Comte de Moustier, 1790. ME 8:108

The genius of Thomas Jefferson is that he recognized the need for constant change and that our expressions of government are always a work in progress towards a more perfect union, but first and foremost always an experiment.