"My team hits lots of foul balls recently. What if, after the game is over, we say that they should be counted as homers?"
The fact that our system has endured this long - longer than any other on the planet, even if measured from 1804 rather than 1789 - argues against tampering with it.
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No—not necessarily. That argument could be used about *any* institution of reasonable length, no matter how odious or just irrational. Why not say that about Jim Crow in 1960? It had lasted 70 years. How about barring women from voting? By 1920, our system had endured 130 years.
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Wait, what? Dan, do you remember the Civil War?
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