I have several problems with the US Constitution, and I would point out that our "constitutional rights" are ensured by amendments to the Constitution, not by the document as it was ratified.
- Having a President instead of a Prime Minister seems, to me, to be a bad idea.
- The Senate is a bad idea because it now unfairly makes voters in states with small populations more powerful than the rest of us. Notice the word "now" in the previous sentence. Originally, the Senate was not even elected by voters.
- The Electoral College is a bad idea because it unfairly makes voters in states with small populations more powerful than the rest of us.
- Even with the addition of the first ten amendments, the so-called Bill of Rights, there is still no constitutional right to privacy.
- Free public education is provided to most children, but no such right is guaranteed in the Constitution.
- Health care is not a constitutional right. Some laws require that hospitals give enough care, even to people with no money, to keep them from dying in the next few hours. However, they are allowed to bill those people for the care they receive, putting them deeply into debt. You can be hit by a bus crossing the street, transported to a hospital unconscious, and be charged thousands of dollars for care you never even asked for.
- The Constitution, as originally written, denied voting rights to most people. Most people are women.
- The Constitution, as originally written, condoned slavery.
- There is no Constitutional right not to be allowed to starve to death as a result of being disabled or even just discriminated against.

That's nine big problems. There are more.

On the positive side, the Constitution completely rejected any form of hereditary aristocracy: monarchs, barons, etc. It did not, however, comprehensively outlaw the use of great wealth to create great power. For a short time, after WWII, the power of the very, very wealthy was in decline. That period of time is over. Now the wealthiest one tenth of one percent are in firm control, and the rest of us are unable to use our Constitution to stop them.

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universa…

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is an international document adopted by the United Nations General Assembly that enshrines the rights and freedoms of all human beings. Drafted by a UN committee chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt, it was accepted by the General Assembly as Resolution 217 during its third session on 10 December 1948 at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, France. Of the 58 members of the United Nations at the time, 48 voted in favour, none against, eight abstained, and two did not vote.

Eleanor Roosevelt was the wife of President Franklin Roosevelt. The US was one of the 48 who voted in favor.

I doubt that Trump approves of the Declaration.

amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/univ…

The right to life is in Article 3: "Everyone has the right to life (and to live in freedom and safety)."

Article 4 reads "Everyone has the right to be free from slavery."

I would remind my fellow Americans that the US Constitution does not outlaw slavery. It specifically allows slavery as punishment for a crime. "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted...shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." Prisoners in penitentiaries in the USA can be forced to work, even without pay.

I had the surreal experience one day of meeting an African-American man in front of a Trader Joe's grocery store asking for signatures to a petition to put a proposal on the election ballot to allow this here in California (where it wasn't allowed).