> > > At Boston College Law School this semester, a constitutional law professor asked students: “Who does not think we should scrap the constitution?” Accordin

> > > At Boston College Law School this semester, a constitutional law professor asked students: “Who does not think we should scrap the constitution?” According to a student in the class, not a single person raised their hand. > This would be the expected response to any question in an 8 a.m. class. Not only that, you're gonna get a fair number of votes for "scrap" in any classroom full of people who've spent much time studying and thinking about the constitution. Most "no" votes will likely be from people approaching it practically, as too difficult to realistically improve on in the current political environment—an "in an ideal world" kind of framing would have a real chance of getting a very sincere and considered, universal "yes" from the whole class. This is because it's fairly bad, and it's been (plenty) long enough to see exactly how and why it's bad. Some parts never worked right (the electoral college comes to mind, which broke completely about as soon as it came in contact with reality and effectively never worked the way, or had the effect, that was intended, at all) and a bunch more kinda work, but are clearly not optimal compared with proven alternatives.