MAYBE IT'S BECAUSE we're editors by trade, but nothing would seem more tempting, and salutary, than a top-to-bottom rewrite of Maryland's constitution, which is bloated, unwieldy, antiquated and intermittently impenetrable. Rambling on for 47,000 words, eight times longer than the U.S. Constitution...
Maryland's constitutional rewrite
MAYBE IT'S BECAUSE we're editors by trade, but nothing would seem more tempting, and salutary, than a top-to-bottom rewrite of Maryland's constitution, which is bloated, unwieldy, antiquated and intermittently impenetrable. Rambling on for 47,000 words, eight times longer than the U.S. Constitution...