@izzythepush,
The thing is izzy that these guys on here know very little about the Constitution or about politics. They use the same trick with these matters as they do with science. A few buzz phrases like gravity, quantum mechanics, alleles and the like and they make themselves sound like scientists to the scientifically illiterate.
I don't know much about the US Constitution and the politics deriving from it. I've read a fair lot about it and it is fiendishly complicated. The simple fact that these bozos make it sound simple and straightforward is quite sufficient evidence of the ignorance they attempt to parlez into expertise. They talk about Jefferson and Hamilton and Jay and company but you just read about the buggers and the Orange Order springs to mind. There was one election shortly after the C was ratified in which 1.3% of the population, 20% being slaves, voted. The bewhiskered gentry. Some for France some for England.
As a guide to what is going on now it's hopeless. BUT IT WORKS PRETTY WELL. Obviously. The thought of it not doing is a knee wobbler.
Every election now is choosing about 1,000,000 officials. Can you get your head around that? Hanging chads, tweaking the electronic voting machines, ID cards, federal and state laws in operation, media buy offs, general hysteria, know alls, campaign funds, arm twisting, penis biographies, eligibility of voters, electoral colleges, primaries, open or closed, front loaded or invisible, caucuses, low turn outs, state rights, absentee ballots, mail ballots, early voting, locally tailored voting machines, confused citizens, signature collections, gerrymandering, PACs, (about 4,000), hard money/soft money, 527 groups, conventions, lies, promises, general bullshit, short attention spans, pork barrels, media, media, media.
It's byzantine. A little knowledge about it is worse than none. It works pretty well for those who it works pretty well for.
What works best is a small and growing population in a large unexploited land rich in natural resources using European technology. Perfect conditions from a Darwinian point of view. Malthus comes later.