The front page of Tuesday’s New York Times including a “side bar” by Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak headlined “‘We the People’ Loses Appeal With People Around the World.”

It’s an analysis piece that argues the “terse and old” U.S. Constitution is too out of date. Liptak mostly relies on a new study by two law professors to argue his case but is bolstered as well by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s recent comments. She gave an interview in Egypt last week where she said “I would not look to the United States Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012,” she said. She recommended looking at the South African Constitution, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms or the European Convention on Human...