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by sirclueless 5527 days ago
I think the chances of finding a group of highly moral, highly impartial, highly intelligent to work together to set up a new system of laws "from scratch" with no other goals than to produce a better system of laws and improve the average quality of life is practically nil.

Although the US system is far from perfect, I think Jefferson, Hamilton and Madison did a pretty darn good job of all that.