Reply #8: Here's what Thomas Jefferson said about it

[tom_paine]

"Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment? laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind? as that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, institutions must advance also, to keep pace with the times? We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain forever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors."
-- Thomas Jefferson, on reform of the Virginia Constitution

So I suppose that, to one of it's foremost architects and indeed a foremost architect of our entire nation from the ground up, the answer would be a resounding NO!