[tpmintx]

So, pray tell me, how would things be any different today if we had abandoned the Constitution 80 years ago?

I can certainly tell you that things would be very different if we had not abandoned the constitution in 1861.

[C210N]

Good point.

To go further... as it’s kind of like the butterfly effect here...

What if we hadn’t abandoned the Constitution on February 25, 1791? Hamilton was gung-ho on a federal bank; Jefferson was TOTALLY against that, and referenced how it breached Article 1 Section 8....

Of course, in this instance (and I’m sure many others), Washington sided with Hamilton.