Because it was version 1.0. Madison and Jefferson’s was a more recent and better version, but the game - Limit the Government - is really the only game in town.
Funny how the nit-pickers like to bring up slavery as the limitation in the original Constitution.
Like future generations aren’t going to criticize us for squinting at the 14th Amendment and seeing some inalienable right to murder your own child in the womb, or for a man to marry another man.
They are going to look at is and say, “Wow, things certainly went downhill from 1789 to 2015. No wonder the US eventually fell apart.”
> They are going to look at is and say, “Wow, things certainly went downhill from 1789 to 2015. No wonder the US eventually fell apart.”
I think you could make that much more accurate by saying “from 2008 to 2015” and saying “really downhill”
I fear that future generations will be taught a warped and incomplete account of our Republic’s demise.
And that the history, contents, and purpose of our Constitution will be heinously misrepresented.