Cord Byrd: “In reading this amendment, this proposed amendment to the Constitution, I have been struck as I read it by the contrast…”

“In reading this amendment, this proposed amendment to the Constitution, I have been struck as I read it by the contrast in this language in the proposed amendment in contrast to the language of the Constitution. Would the Senator be surprised if I were to say to him that the Constitution of the United States provides for a Congress of two bodies, the Senate and the House of Representatives, provides for the creation of the House of Representatives, provides for the establishment of the Senate of the United States, provides for the establishment of the Presidency, provides for the establishment of the Supreme Court of the United States, and provides for the mode by which that Constitution would come into being? Would the Senator be surprised if I were to say to him that the language in the Constitution that does all of these things that I just enumerated constitutes fewer words than are used in this proposed amendment to the Constitution?”