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Necessary Inefficiency of the Constitution

ith the process. (Perhaps I should just attach a copy of the School House Rocks hit, “I’m Just a Bill”.) Checks and balances definitely make a bill perfect, but often times the problem is resolved by the time the bill becomes law. The efficiency, or the productiveness, effectiveness, and proficiency, of the United States government is very low. The core principles and fundamentals drafted into the Constitution by our framers perhaps wanted it that way. Maybe the framers intentionally set up the government to respond to problems slowly, so that no problems would ever be dealt with in a rash or irresponsible manner. Charles A. Beard certainly does not think the framers acted with the public good in mind. Beard believes the framers wrote the Constitution to benefit their own economic interests. He claims that our nation’s most prized document was written to boost its author’s own bounty. Contrary to what Beard believes John P. Roche considers that the framers wrote everything to benefit their own political affiliations. There was much expected out of the men who wrote the Constitution. Regardless if they wrote it for selfish reasons or not, it still is does its job today.Although the Constitution of the United States is over 200 years old, it still holds precedent in our world now in the 21st century. If the framers wrote the Constitution to benefit themselves, it is irrelevant because it hasn’t failed yet, and it has kept this country together for a long time and will continue to do so. However, the Constitution works very slowly and inefficiently at the cost of the American people. However, the fact that our government moves slowly is only a minor problem in the grand scheme of the world....

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