This is a lot of words to say "the Constitution kinda sucks for a modern state & economy, civil law is kinda simply better than common law in at least this one

This is a lot of words to say "the Constitution kinda sucks for a modern state & economy, civil law is kinda simply better than common law in at least this one particular way, and also the TL;DR answer to the headline, despite all that, is 'Republicans refuse to fully staff agencies'" The stuff about progressives at the top is weird. I don't know how they even found a large enough data set of enacted progressive policies to draw a conclusion about whether they're too policy-focused rather than admin-focused. Then the rest of the article is largely about how Republicans won't staff agencies properly, so how could it possibly matter how admin-focused progressives are? Progressives don't even control the democratic party, let alone have control of government, so I don't know what the point of the opening section was. [EDIT] That first bit's me summarizing the article's points, by the way, not just throwing in my own take, as several top-level posters seem to have decided to do. Admittedly, connecting the civil/common law divide to the courts section is mine, but considering that comes up over and over again in analyses of this problem, and that section's largely describing the exact effect that those others have also noticed, I think that's fair.