So are you telling me that you believe we today are, more or less, living according to the Constitution as envisioned by Madison?
Not totally but he held it all together.
We are more or less following it in that we haven't abandoned it. Has each branch over reached their powers yes, but have they done so to the point where I would say we aren't still under the Constitution? No. But to think that we have even made it this long using a document that is 4000 odd words long is flat out amazing to me.