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8. For 1787, the Constitution was a masterpiece of legal engineering
Sun Dec 3, 2017, 03:03 AM
Dec 2017

No one in 1787 could have imagined huge western sparsely populated states getting a disproportionate minority of people represented in the Senate (even the Louisiana Purchase was a quarter century in the future), gerrymandering, the electoral college deliberately electing someone obviously NOT the choice of the electorate, especially one so obviously unqualified. Madison and Jefferson set the government up so as not to be subject to the constant intrigue of the constant assassinations and changing of Emperors like the Roman empire. They set up the Constitution to be amendable by a two thirds majority of 13 (expecting a few more, but not 37 more) States, not 50. They could no more imagine Republican electoral fraud or cyber interference by Russia than they could imagine crossing the Atlantic in 8 hours instead of 8 weeks.

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