Ok, so I've been ruminating forever on some things. Do you suppose

[Spider Jerusalem]

16. The answer to that is, yes, the US needs a new Constitution

but it won't happen because Americans generally have a near-religious reverence for the current one, as flawed as it is.

The American system of government is antiquated, undemocratic, and ultimately unworkable; the quasi-monarchical presidency wields excessive power with limited accountability, and in times of a different party controlling Congress and the Presidency, the power struggle between branches, in the name of "elected legitimacy", is destructive to good government. The USA would be much better off with a parliamentary rather than a presidential system, with the real power vested in the lower chamber (another problem of the American form of government: the Senate is overly powerful and undemocratic, and the excessive and disproportionate power of states representing a minority of the population can amount to a tyranny of the minority).