While our Founding Fathers did a pretty good job building a system of government that could place appropriate checks and balances upon those in power, they neither completely understood the past nor saw perfectly into the future. They did not always provide the correct remedy for every eventuality.
I'm quite convinced those Builders of this Nation looked back, not to Rome's Republic, but to Plato's when they built these United States. And I am equally convinced that they got more than a few things wrong. Most thoughtful people have their own list of the mistakes they made.
My list of errors includes the required majorities for the passage of legislation. I am mindful of much that has been written on the "tyranny of the minority." I have also heard more adages about the "evils of compromise," than one ought to have to hear in a life-time.
Regardless, I am seriously undeterred in my belief that requiring a so-called "super-majority" (2/3rds) for each and every bill introduced in a legislature would produce fewer but better laws. And we ought to correct this mistake to provide a better future for our grandchildren.
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