I wouldn’t get defensive. I tend to share San Jocinto’s initial reaction. Our constitution has been so basterdized and trampled in the past and doubly so in the past 8 months, it is hard to debate what we should have done to begin with. Had we stuck to the very core principles of the constitution this country would be far better.
No offense.
That said, the original federation would not have lasted and the world would be very much different today. It would be a lot worse. But then, we wouldn’t know the difference.
There was the French & Indian War, Revolutionary War and uprisings and various problems with the peace. We're talking 25 years or so of social upheaval.
As foreign observers openly predicted the fall of the US or perhaps reabsorption back to England, our framers got together to correct the situation.
The result was the Constitution. The most perfect document created to arrange the relationship of man to state. It took the Natural Law philosophy of our Founders and unlike the Articles it put it that philosophy into practice.
It is not the fault of the Framers nor Constitution itself that it survived pretty well intact until 1933. No piece of parchment can protect our liberties. It is up to we the people and we have done a poor job of it.