The Constitution is America's Weakness, not its Strength
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Professor, I concur that the US Constitution is in need of reform and revision. The list is long that requires updating from its founding as an undeveloped and rural country to an industrial power, to an urbanized superpower, a post industrial economy, and an advanced technological economy that has begun its third iteration as a post industrial economy. Furthermore, the aforementioned did not discuss the evolution of our cultural and demographic milieu and how Federalism has also evolved.
Your solution of a parliamentary system is antithetical to the American culture. We are a people that is distrustful of the concentration of political, social and economic power in the main. However, US elected and appointed leaders, capitalists, and cultural elites are of the opposite thinking since the late 19th Century through today as long as they are on the receiving end of the government's largesse.
The respite from concentration of power favoring the elites was the Progressive era till WW I. A second and longer respite occurred during The Great Depression, New Deal, WW II then the post WW II years till approximately ‘73. The final respite and a very brief period and only regarded political reform was during the Church Hearings and Watergate reforms.
Starting in the Carter years a neoliberal economics reared its head with deregulation then the Reagan Devolution policies reminiscent of the 1920s and a neocon foreign policy that was reminiscent of gunboat diplomacy but on steroids American style.
A parliamentary system in the vein of the British system or what you conveniently omitted the Zionist Knesset in Israel is not the solution whatsoever. Both of those so-called democratic systems are dysfunctional at minimum and have been so at their founding. The Brits maintained an empire created by a mixed monarchical, House of Lords aristocracy and House of Commons directly elected by the people system that transformed the Asian continent into a colonial project for vast swaths that immiserated Asia for approximately two centuries.
As for Israel it was illegitimately and illegally founded on a 19th Zionist philosophy by atheists and agnostics of Jewish “diaspora” and converts to Judaism to a homeland that wasn’t theirs and remains the captured land of the Palestinian people. Israel began as a terrorist state masquerading as a Parliamentary republic and has devolved into a fascistic genocidal state with ambitions of a Greater Israel Empire and to hell with the inhabitants of Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan part of Turkey and even possibly the GCCs.
So much for improved governance of parliamentary systems as modeled on Western systems.