[Huck]

That's the problem with imagining alternate history. If there's no Constitution, just a league of States, with enough power to remain stable, is there still a World War 2? How many things might have been different? Would there have been a different enemy? What would have been different in Europe as a result? I don't bother with any of that.

Slavery was a state issue. It was ultimately resolved through war, which demonstrates how well the Constitution guarded against factional problems. It exacerbated them.

My point is to maybe persuade a few conservatives to not look at the disease as if it were the cure. The Constitution is fatally flawed.

[1010RD]

The Constitution is not fatally flawed.

[Jacquerie]

just a league of States, with enough power to remain stable

Wouldn't have happened.

demonstrates how well the Constitution guarded against factional problems

The US was dissolving under the Articles. Is that the way to address factionalism?

The Constitution is fatally flawed.

Nonsense.

I will add John Jay to the list of founders/framers, Madison, Jefferson, Washington you defame. Are there any others, or are all of the signatories to the Constitution clueless?

[Jacquerie]

just a league of States, with enough power to remain stable

". . . the Articles of Confederation have inconsiderately endeavored to accomplish impossibilities; to reconcile a partial sovereignty in the Union, with complete sovereignty in the states.” - James Madison

[Political Junkie Too]

How many things might have been different?

Balkanization of North America?

-PJ

[Loud Mime]

The Constitution is fatally flawed

I believe the problem is with how it is managed. I find more faults with people than with the constitution.