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I grew up in a country without a written constitution (but have lived under the US one for 34 years). I can say with much feeling that it is wonderful to have a

I grew up in a country without a written constitution (but have lived under the US one for 34 years). I can say with much feeling that it is wonderful to have a written constitution. But this particular one? Not so much. Vastly better ones elsewhere, if only because they have less veto points and a better amendment process.

lukas099 3y ago
It is telling that when the US has helped developing countries write their constitutions, they have not modeled them after their own. The bulk of it was largely designed around the specific circumstances of them 13 colonies->states, many of whom kind of hated each other, and full of appeasements to their different concerns at that time. Everything else has been retrofitted into it since then.
- matthewdgreen 3y ago
  Not to mention that we then had a massive civil war, which left many of the underlying representative issues unresolved. It’s 2023 and we still have states trying to re-write their Congressional maps in ways that violate the law. https://www.npr.org/2023/09/05/1193749552/alabama-congressional-map https://www.npr.org/2023/09/05/1193749552/alabama-congressio...