> Their version of polarization produced the enduring document that is the American Constitution. > Thus, there’s some precedent that political polarization ca

> Their version of polarization produced the enduring document that is the American Constitution. > Thus, there’s some precedent that political polarization can produce world-class governance, if you can only figure out a way to still work together. I don't think their era generated world-class governance. The actual machinery of government and its employment was clumsy and erratic. The product of the era was world-class philosophical and experimental improvements in the theory of government that allowed better governance later.