Tony: You have put together a great article that have summarized my suspicion for many years. The US Articles of Confederation and Constitution are documents for the wealthy of that time.

The word "platitudinous" is very appropriate: offer the sayings, but provide little means to implement those sayings.

"No moral compass"-----Right on!

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I'm still plugging around on Medium. Not sure why. No takers yet on the TDG.