Which is why we’ve amended the Constitution multiple times since the Founding, as expressly allowed by the terms of the Constitution itself, and even un-amended it (Prohibition).
And we have added gloss to the text through federal and Supreme Court decisions which elucidate its meaning in specific contexts.
And sometimes situations arise which were apparently totally overlooked by our Founders.
Example: The Constitution itself says nothing about how to fight a pandemic, and yet we are doing it anyway — arguably unconstitutionally, as quarantining is quite totalitarian indeed — because to do otherwise would be suicide.
So no: I understand all that history quite well.
The issue is that society has changed quite a bit since our Founding. I don’t know exactly what you have in mind, but basically dialing the clock back to 1787, or whenever year you would personally identify as when American liberty was at its maximum (and I’d be very curious to hear what your answer to that question would be) would require much more radical change than anything I have seen anyone else advocating on ImgFlip.
So my questions of today for you are:
—Where exactly did we “go wrong?”
—Which aspects of modern American government would you keep, and which would you toss?
—Do you have any contemporaneous examples of other countries who have successfully followed a path such as this, or would the radical change you seek be a uniquely “American experiment”?
