We need to recognize that the 1789 Constitution was fantastic in establishing a system of self - government that managed to remain stable while preserving personal liberty for nearly 70 years.
After that, amendments meant to correct the nation’s original sin and other disastrous court decisions, plus populist inspired further amendments proved to be enough to put the federal government in charge of our lives instead of us.
If we do not recognized that the current document needs to be scrapped and replaced with a constitution that will take all of the lessons learned over the last 250 years into account to restore REAL liberty, any rebellion will be futile. We need to stop worshipping the document which has permitted all of this to happen over that last 150 years.
The Document didn’t permit it. The People did.
The problem is: if you give people their liberty (and I DON’T consider that a problem per se), they’ll eventually get on to to dealing with their lives and stop paying attention to the big picture.
What you suggest, and I’m not opposed on principal, is add a whole lot of “if”, “then”, “else” statements to the document.
Which basically boils down to letting the coders, or in this case, the lawyers, do their thing.
The problem with that is: The lawyers ARE in charge. And they don’t write laws for us, not directly, not anymore, they write them for other lawyers. They make the code so convoluted, that only a lawyer, and an inside lawyer at that, can ever understand it.
That’s how things got screwed up. We The People took our eye off the ball.
Strike!