Every year, thousands upon thousands of federal, state and local public officials (including county supervisors and school board members) and members of the military take an oath to be loyal and faithful to their duties. All of them promise to uphold the Constitution of the United States. The preamble, an almost poetical construction of words, includes the phrase that the Constitution exists to “insure domestic Tranquility.” That is, in our view, a population not at constant odds with itself, but working and coexisting together. We are not pointing fingers, because one can find offenders in almost every corner. We do, however, wonder if some of those who take the oath have ever bothered to read the document to which they swear fidelity. They are always stirring up trouble. In the space below we list a few proposals, big and maybe not quite so big, that might help smooth some of our troubled domestic waters. If only, in our divided Congress, they could win support and adoption; and in o...