‘First Do No Harm’—A Viable Principle for Politics?

Gouverneur Morris is the man to thank for the U.S. Constitution's crisp, snappy preamble. Sean Locke Photography/Shutterstock

Commentary

A couple of months ago, I wrote about various ways that both existing policies and proposed policies hurt a certain number of American citizens. Sometimes the hurt was by design; other times, an unavoidable consequence of the policy.