“most of the Founding Fathers were lawyers, and that they constructed a legal framework that cannot be easily navigated by the rest of us.”
Nonsense - I never studied law and I find the Constitution quite clear. It seems the author wants to pretend otherwise so he can criticize it without having to quote it.
Liberty didn’t fail us. We failed Liberty.
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
John Adams.