I honestly think that one of the big problems with a "civics education" as we understand it is that it's premised on the idea that the system as currently constituted is a good system and we have a duty to try to maintain it Based on basically no evidence
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If you think overthrowing an old regime for a new one is an evil thing to do, you should be bending the knee to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II And if you think a bunch of people writing new rules is absurd hubris, rip up that Constitution you worship because that's all it is
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not only did they overthrow the british, they never bothered following the official process to overturn the articles of confederation. just went ahead and wrote a second constitution
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