According to recent surveys, Americans are in favor of change…..they are in favor of any change so that being in opposition to an incumbent may be an advantage. John Adams favored change on many occasions. Consider his plea to Congress during his Third Annual Message to Congress (essentially a State of the Union):
“To give due effect to the civil administration of Government and to insure a just execution of the laws, a revision and amendment of the judiciary system is indispensably necessary. In this extensive country it can not but happen that numerous questions respecting the interpretation of the laws and the rights and duties of officers and citizens must arise. On the one hand, the laws should be executed; on the other, individuals should be guarded from oppression. Neither of these objects is sufficiently assured under the present organization of the judicial department. I therefore earnestly recommend the subject to your serious consideration. ”
What do you think?
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