Among those nations, on the other hand, which entered upon a season of constitution making and popular reform before administration had received the impress of liberal principle, administrative improvement has been tardy and half - done, Once a nation has embarked in the business of manufacturing constitutions, it finds it exceedingly difficult to close out that business and open for the public a bureau of skilled, economical administration. There seems to be no end to the tinkering of constitutions. Your ordinary constitution will last you hardly ten years without rep airs or additions; and the time for administrative detail comes late.