> They absolutely did not consider the “large geographical nation” that the US has become, because it did not exist as such at that time. You are making the s

> They absolutely did not consider the “large geographical nation” that the US has become, because it did not exist as such at that time. You are making the same mistake as in the earlier part. US was already pretty big at the time of US constitutional debates to make direct democracy not possible. > They didn’t do that. Why should we? You're more than welcome to do that, but understand something, all the past constitutions/republics/democracies is data, which cannot be easily replicated and controlled for. You're going to come up with a new political system which ignores literally every negative lesson of the history of past 3000 years then you will need to explain how are those concerns not necessary. Founding fathers were, really really really worried about things devolving into a military dictatorship and violation of individual rights. There are plenty of reasons to criticize them for not caring enough about the individual rights, but none that their concerns were unwarranted. Just to give you an idea of the concerns we need to care about: - Build a system which is democratic in nature and works for a large country like ours. - Make sure that it prevents the democracy from violating individual rights. - Make sure that it does not become a dictatorship (like how Roman Republic ended and became a dictatorship when Julius Caesar declared himself the permanent dictator).