Simply because something was designed a certain way 250 years ago, doesn’t mean it’s a non issue. The political problem they were trying to solve at the time (

Simply because something was designed a certain way 250 years ago, doesn’t mean it’s a non issue. The political problem they were trying to solve at the time (balancing the interests of independent sovereign political entities with respect to land claims and future political power) doesn’t necessarily map onto the problems we have today.