Always remember... “the Constitution is a living, breathing document.”
“But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case it is unfit to exist.”
- L. Spooner
IOW: “A Republic, if you can keep it”...then the pleebs (majorily) coalesced into a faux dichotomy of “the lesser of 2 evils...long as I ‘get mine’”