The working of any given balance of liberties and social protections is a phenomenon observable only in time increments over centuries, or possibly millenia. T

The working of any given balance of liberties and social protections is a phenomenon observable only in time increments over centuries, or possibly millenia. There are many examples of "liberal" and even "democratic" or "republican" governments / societies that lasted for centuries before failing into tyranny and / or to foreign domination. The US Constitution attempts to correct the failings of each of those examples. Saying it has worked so far is declaring the weather today, all day long, was great -- at 9:30am. Saying the French or Germans have demonstrated their solutions, at that time scale, is just nuts.