But here we are repeating words which are absolutely unnecessary and which might have been easily, without any detraction of meaning or derogation to the propriety of the article, omitted. I wish we had a Constitution much less bulky. The other day some friends of mine who were students in a college wrote to me after they had perused the Draft Constitution–they are students of politics–they said half in jest and half in earnest that the future generation of students will curse many of us who have presented the country with such a bulky document.
