Rooks: Constitutions need amendment to thrive
Douglas Rooks
But is it in good health? There, signs are less encouraging.
Among the oddest of recent legal doctrines has been the “originalist” school, which finds the Constitution adequate exactly as the Framers left it. The absurdity that a Constitution written two centuries ago anticipates all our present needs hasn’t made it less influential among certain Supreme Court justices.
Even the greatest charters of government must be renewed periodically. Yet while state constitutions are amended countless times, there have been only 27 federal amendments.
Most were ratified in the early 20th century, when America’s role in the world was growing and changing.
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McPhee Reservoir in southwest Colorado is getting is fourth lowest runoff on record. Author: Cory Reppenhagen Updated: 10:33 PM MDT May 11, 2021
DURANGO, Colo. It was another big day of rain and snow on the Colorado Front Range Monday.
The weather station at Denver International Airport has now recorded 8.02 inches of precipitation since Jan. 1 that s nearly double the 4.46 inches at that spot at this point in 2020.
Mother Nature has not been as kind to the Western Slope.
Durango La Plata Airport has only received 2.56 inches of precipitation so far in 2021. The average there is 4.36 inches through May.
The snowpack in the southwest part of the country was very low this season from October through May a typical result of a La Nina weather pattern. Colorado was mostly spared the major snow deficit thanks to some well-placed upslope storms east of the Continental Divide, but the southwest corner of the state did get caught up in th