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You make good points but I think you're missing some of the good things or at least an attempt at good things like having three branches of government to use as checks and balances. Yeah, it's not working now but I think it was a worthy attempt.
I also think the amendments were pretty good. Freedom of speech, unlawful searches and seizures, no quartering of soldiers, voting Rights, etc. I mean it was a different time. Did any country give poor people the same rights as the wealthy? I know freedom of religion wasn't universal.
A lot of these rules have been circumvented, but I'm not certain they could have foreseen this and that is the nature of the complaint, isn't it?