by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math
Larry Sabato opens up the floor for outside the box thinking on the structure of our current government. As he points out, the founders thought the Constitution ought to be amended or replaced with some frequency. Instead, things have changed subtly, through shifts in judicial interpretation and occasional spurts of amendments (the Civil War, the Progressive Era, and Civil Rights amendments). But Sabato points out that the Constitution was written for a nation of farmers (and a substantial number of textile factories in the North) at a time when the difference in population between Virginia and Connecticut was much lower, and you courier your messages to the capital.
Sabato promises to start with what's wrong with our current constitution, so let me throw out a few ways in which the country is has changed since the time of the Founders. Some of this is ground Professor Sabato has already covered, but here we go. Add yours in the comments:
