On changing the Constitution, Thomas Jefferson wrote, "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, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times.
VP Al Gore restructured the bureaucracy, cut duplication in programs, reassigned workers to new programs, and used attrition to trim the size of the bureaucracy.
