In about 20 years, half the population will live in eight states

[getagrip_already]

5. uhmm, actually it is.....

They very explicitly intended the minority to be protected from the majority. Hence 2 houses for congress, an executive branch, and an independent judiciary.

It was all predicated on a balance of power. Co-equal branches of gov't.

The skeptics gave it 50 years. It lasted about 250. But now, it is threatened not because of an imbalance in population, but because two branches conspired to corrupt the third.

That is what will destroy this grand experiment. Greed and corruption. The very thing the distribution of power was intended to prevent, but which consolidation will enshrine.

It's all there in history from the federalist papers on down.

(note, federalists of modern day would make the original crowd go to war).

go read. go, now go, before those who remember die off. go. really. read.