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Exactly the selfish reason why I recommend the practice be more widespread :-) The trick to bootstrapping is to start with either a scratch chicken or a scratch egg.

(not that there's much hope of the particular case you mention. The most recent amendment proposal to the US constitution that has actually been ratified dates from 1971: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-sixth_Amendment_to_the_... )

Bonus image: https://c8.alamy.com/comp/ERH50D/the-adventures-of-baron-mun...