The founding Fathers carefully structured a plan to run the government for decades, but did the 250th Celebration represent a farewell, having gradually drifted away from the ethics and unselfishness our constitution requires. It worked when strongminded men of character voted as they saw best. However, they debated vigorously, and listened to the ideas of others, and sometimes found something better. Other times they saw that ideas would not work but alterations would. The point was that together they could find ways to satisfy more than just the strongest.
That system worked best with less power in the presidency, after all, America was born to escape a King. Congress was supposed to be the most powerful branch of government, because individually they represented the people. The more power in the President, the less power of the Congress, and the more power of political parties, the reduction of the power of Congress speaking for the citizens that elected them. The Founding Fathers saw the system they created as the best representation of their voters.
Today there are those that feel our constitution no longer works. For example, each state has two senators, although some states have much smaller populations. Yet, if the present system were based on population, small states would be constantly crimpled.
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There is also the changed competition of the world, making it impossible for the hardest working Senator to be deeply informed about every issue. Senators cannot be well informed about AI, our heating Planet, whether farmers are helping or hurting the nation's soils, the cause for children falling behind, use and abuse of medicines, efficacy of vaccines, and other countless important issues. Has the system the Founding Father's devised become obsolete or is it only that the safeguards the Founding Fathers established have gradually been ignored? Has what the Founding Fathers established slipped from congress and wrongly been assumed by the President?
Once the Senate was called "the world's greatest liberating body." Under Article 11, Section 2, the President nominates his choice of whom he wants, but the members of the Senate have the final say and responsibility of determining qualification. Both Parties should want qualified nominees. However, I have watched many reviews of candidates chosen by presidents, and the bias of the examiners seems obvious. This should not be entirely the President's choice. This examination is important, and both parties should remove their political bias and determine for themselves whether the candidate is capable. That is their responsibility, regardless of their political party. We voters may tend to see the election as over, but perhaps all of us need to be more concerned about the President's choices and let our Senators know how we feel.
Our Constitution is not broken. Rather, those given the responsibility to protect and defend are failing us. The World is more complicated than in Washington's time. There are more issues, and the world moves faster. However, the responsibility of those we elect have better travel, better access to information, better staff, better ability to travel home, better health and better opportunities. The people we elect are what makes the Constitution work, and if it isn't working, what makes you think a different Constitution would do any better. Perhaps it is us, not the Constitution, that needs some respect of the laws the Founding Fathers wisely provided for us in order to heal the Nation.
