http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gay-marriage-north-carolina-20110912,0,6393616.story
"Legislative instability is an ill inherent in democratic government... Almost all American constitutions have been amended within the lsat thirty years, and so there is no American state which has not modified the basis of its laws within that period." [Tocqueville, p249]
For a Frenchman, Tocqueville seems to have a pretty solid understanding of American politics.
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