Mark Levin, on Page 73 of Liberty and Tyranny, points out that worrisome issue of human imperfection to the contrary, our constitutional system is still about as good a devised system of governance as can be expected any, so it must be preserved and not replaced.
Levin writes: "For the conservative, the lesson comes back to man's imperfection. Even good men are capable of bad things. The disgrace of slavery is a disgrace of the human condition--as is all tyranny. Man's institutions, like man himself, are imperfect. They can be used for good or bad, and they have been used for both. Therefore, diffusing authority among many imperfect men, by enumerating federal power, separating power within the federal government, and sharing power with the states--isolates and limits tyranny. . ."
The genius of our constitutional system is a negative good, keeping power decentralized so that frail humans addicted to power cannot concentrate it in their own hands so as to subjugate their neighbors by the authoritarian wielding of federal power.
The arrival of the supercitizen/individuating anarchist voter upon the American political scene would serve as a positive means of people wielding power while keeping it decentralized and incorruptible.
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