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If originalists have succeeded in anything (besides their takeover of the judicial branch of the US), it's convincing me of the same - the constitution as it wa
by hotpotamus 4y ago
If originalists have succeeded in anything (besides their takeover of the judicial branch of the US), it's convincing me of the same - the constitution as it was written is inadequate to govern an industrial society in the 20th century and beyond. Pragmatic people somehow made it work for a time, but that no longer seems feasible.
- midoridensha 4y agoExactly my point. It's outlived its usefulness. In addition to that, it was never a great system of government to begin with; it only seemed like it because there wasn't much competition at the time for democratic governments. These days, we have lots of examples of nations with better systems of government, and as far as I can tell, they're all parliamentary systems. Having the Executive separately elected sounds like a good idea if you only have experience with monarchies, but in practice it doesn't work out very well.