this queasy view of the future.

i know i said i wouldn't do this but i was so struck by this when i read it that i had to write it somewhere.

"ah, this is the constitution," he said. "now mark my words. so long as we are a young and virtuous people, this instrument will bind us together in mutual interests, mutual welfare, and mutual happiness. but when we become old and corrupt, it will bind us no longer."

ron chernow, alexander hamilton