I gave you specific example showing the number of cookies the constitution and the very people who wrote it intended us have is not restricted by a limit you think exists.

If you want to continue pursuing this direction of argument, I would request that you address this issue. Just repeating that it's the progressives' fault for making the country stupid doesn't make it so.

Benjamin Franklin supposedly said that it's up to the rest of the country to keep (and therefore change if it chooses so) the system of government from the constitution (or whatever way the founders wanted it). It would seem to me they were fully aware of the possibilities that the constitution allows and didn't want to restrict them any further than they did.

Or as I said at the very beginning of my participation in this thread - this country is the result of the constitutional framework and the voting of the people (yes the one big exception is the civil war which directly violated the constitutionally established processes when it didn't produce the outcome desired by the union states).