"Not Enough People Connect the Dots Between Our Political Dysfunctions and the Sacred Constitution of 1787"

"The Framers simply didn't anticipate how deeply partisanship would hollow out Congress' willingness to hold a president accountable. They hated political parties—George Washington bemoaned 'the demon of party spirit'—and failed to account for the ways in which what they called 'factions' would eventually come to make a mockery of the checks and balances they wrote into the system."

Sanford V. Levinson at Politico argues that "The Constitution Needs a Reboot."