Raises a profound thought that our Founders tried their best to craft our republic in such a manner as to survive the destructive forces that brought down the Roman republic and turned Rome into a brutal oppressive dictstorship. Too bad they failed
Nonsense.
The Framing generation gifted the world's most perfect constitution of government. They had nothing to do with 16th and 17th Amendments. Nor did they sit on their hands for 103 years and not repeal them.