Our Founding Fathers didn’t quite get it right. They merely came closer than had anyone before or since.
“The merit of the founders of our Republics lies in the more accurate views and the practical applications of the doctrines [of self-government]. The rights of man as the foundation of just Government had been long understood; but the superstructures projected had been sadly defective.”
. . . . . Letter to N. P. Trist, February, 1830 (Madison Center Archives, JMU)
No matter what the machine (BMW, Porsche, Mercedes, Honda), it has to be put in the hands of a human. That driver can destroy the best built machines. The same is true with government. No matter how well constructed it is, the humans who pilot it can crash it.