There was the French & Indian War, Revolutionary War and uprisings and various problems with the peace. We're talking 25 years or so of social upheaval.
As foreign observers openly predicted the fall of the US or perhaps reabsorption back to England, our framers got together to correct the situation.
The result was the Constitution. The most perfect document created to arrange the relationship of man to state. It took the Natural Law philosophy of our Founders and unlike the Articles it put it that philosophy into practice.
It is not the fault of the Framers nor Constitution itself that it survived pretty well intact until 1933. No piece of parchment can protect our liberties. It is up to we the people and we have done a poor job of it.
“It is not the fault of the Framers nor Constitution itself that it survived pretty well intact until 1933. No piece of parchment can protect our liberties. It is up to we the people and we have done a poor job of it.”
Amen.
It survived "pretty well intact" only until "Teddy" Roosevelt struck the first Marxist blows and then the 16th and 17th....
It has been a slippery slide downhill ever since...We are merely witnessing the unstoppable (by elective means) endgame...