Trump's rampage revealed a crippling crack in the backbone of America

The United States Constitution is a remarkable and precious document. It was also written in 1787. Back when it was illegal to walk down the street with a chicken on your head.The men who wrote it were trying to design a government for a country with fewer than four million people — that’s just twice the population of Manhattan. Where information traveled by horse, an “assault weapon” required you to stop and reload after every shot, and foreign interference in an election would have involved a guy getting off a boat carrying a suspiciously large sack of pamphlets.Maybe it’s me, but the document that pretty much governs everything we do, more than 250 years later, could use an update.Take treason, for example.Article III declares that treason consists of “levying War” against the United States or “adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.” It also establishes an extraordinarily high...