The Brevity Act: Time for a 28th Amendment

by Bob Gale

Earlier this year, Congress passed a “Stimulus” Bill.  It was 973 pages long. This past Friday, the House passed a “Climate Change” Bill.  It was more than 1200 pages long. 

This got me wondering: how long, exactly, is our Constitution?  How many pages did it take our country’s founders to lay out the structure and functions of our Federal Government? 

Easy to answer.  I found the Constitution online and copied it into a Word document, in Times New Roman 12 point type. So how long is it? 

Including the preamble, all signatures and all 27 amendments, it’s 20 pages. 

Without the signatures and amendments, it’s 11 pages.  (more…)

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Posted Jun 29th 2009 at 1:13 pm in Featured Story, Politics | 28 Comments