The constitution and declaration sum up the best idea man has had for governing. Our CREATOR has made us equal and free. Start with that premise.
And the more human nature is taken into account at every level of government from large (president of a land) to small (dog catcher et al), from phase (introductory excitement and dogooding at the birth of a new country) to phase (a jaded population grown used to corruption), the closer we get to an ideal minimalist gov.
Switzerland is farther along than we are with federalism, for instance. Allow the states MORE freedom with LESS control from the top. All politicians part time, earn very little for their service, all have full time jobs elsewhere. Title of “president” merely a figurehead for a year; country run at the top by seven individuals, rotating year by year which one serves as “president” for meeting world leaders, etc.
More power to the people to “citizens arrest” the leaders. For instance, the ability for the people to have a Party arrested on criminal charges for being corrupt, needing a trial by jury. The ability for the People to have criminal charges brought on the leader for not being eligible: not the crap here where no one was seen to have “standing” to even FIND OUT IF OBAMA HAD EVER HAD A US PASSPORT before the senate handed him one, or discover why he never had a social security number of his own.
” Our CREATOR has made us equal and free.”
The equal part is the biggest BS perpetrated on people and the biggest cause of human problems. It is patently obvious we are NOT equal.
If anything God made us all different, and thank God for that!