The other day I noted that “liberals generally don’t bother with [constitutional] amendments.” A liberal blowhard strongly protests, crediting liberals with the 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 17th, 19th, 21st, 23rd, 24th, and 26th Amendments. It’s not a persuasive criticism. It’s ahistorical to refer to several of those amendments as the work of liberals. But even if it weren’t, I never claimed that liberals have always, historically, had an aversion to amendments, and it’s silly to pretend that I did. (Note the present tense and the qualifier in my quoted statement.) Even if I granted the blogger the last three amendments as the work of people who could reasonably be described as modern liberals, they would not contradict the point that such liberals have generally preferred to pursue constitutional change through the courts rather than through the amendment process for the last three decades.