"Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it. . . .But I know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. . . . and keep pace with the times." T. Jefferson