The effort to make these things available to history, or to researchers, or to those who just want to explore is now inhibited by a set of rules that were written for a radically different context.

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW IS NOT OBLIVIOUS of the obvious. Or, at least, it does not need to be.

In my view, a pragmatic court committed to interpreting and applying our framers' Constitution would see that if Congress has the power to perpetually extend existing terms, then the constitutional requirement that terms be limited has lost its force.