At 71, he points out that the able administration of government is the key and that everything will not automatically turn rosy once the Constitution is ratified and the new government inaugurated. That he was right is incontrovertible, but why? How do form and function intersect here?
Government had to be implemented after the design was approved. Implementation rarely goes exactly as planned.
Clausewitz once said that a battle plan rarely survives first contact with the enemy. Another wise man once said that the devil is in the details.