(I'm non-American. This is what I know. Tell me if I have anything wrong)
The U.S. was one of the first modern democracies but that was 247 years ago. Now the U.S. is one of the oldest modern democracies.
The U.S. constitution is supposed to kept updated with constitutional amendments. There used to be 1-2 amendments per decade, but the upgrade process has stopped.
Last completed ratification was 1992 (27th congressional salary) . All significant ratification's happened over 50 years ago (voting age, civil rights).
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Programmers would call this technical debt, unmaintained codebase.
The U.S. was one of the first modern democracies but that was 247 years ago. Now the U.S. is one of the oldest modern democracies.
The U.S. constitution is supposed to kept updated with constitutional amendments. There used to be 1-2 amendments per decade, but the upgrade process has stopped.
Last completed ratification was 1992 (27th congressional salary) . All significant ratification's happened over 50 years ago (voting age, civil rights).
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Programmers would call this technical debt, unmaintained codebase.