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And the provisions of the Constitution are singularly ineffectual (compared even to the constitutions of the semi-civilized countries) in ameliorating this god-awful mess.
I rest my case.
Not so. It is the actions of those ignoring the Constitution that have brought the US into the present mess. There were other choices, and all would have been Constitutional in nature. Those choices were not made, and so you insult the Constitution, not those violating it for fun and profit.
After all, most Constitutions written post 1790 have incorporated much from the US version, which was also a largely borrowed job, where our source was the various Indian nations on the Eastern part of what is now the continental US.
