Musing of one munching shortbread and wondering if anybody ever tried to bake longbread...

Thanks for the comments including the one from Nick on email. When we made the previous posting, we thought that perhaps some members of the younger generations (and that includes about everybody) would feel impelled to delve into the background and history of the Constitution. In our own amateur analysis (we don't claim to be Constitutional scholars) we detected 3 goals of the Founding Fathers: 1. to establish a strong central government with limited powers 2. to promote individual freedom and to foster the efforts of all individuals in their legitimate pursuit of prosperity 3. to bring the people and government closer together (it's easier to deal with a state or local government than with a remote central government which is trying to deal with 300+ million people). Maybe we should have a Constitution party which would finally get big enough to throw everybody out and start over again.