> not thousands of pages like most “laws” today. James Madison was adamantly against laws that were bloated and indecipherable. Of course, the feds started making such laws as soon as he and the Founding Fathers were gone: https://pic8.co/sh/2XHHL9.jpg > Frankly, I think the Articles of Confederation were a better deal We were taught that the AoC were bad largely because they permitted states to charge tariffs on interstate trade, and to create their own paper currencies of dubious value and then use them to steal property from the middle class (culminating in Shay's Rebellion). With runaway fiat currency--money printer go brrr--and SCOTUS having legalized states putting tariffs back onto interstate trade, we're in too many ways back to the AoC. Though I'd say the best basis of government we've seen has been the Confederate States of America's Constitution, as it took the US Constitution and fixed what had proven to be its flaws. So many of our problems would be solved if Congress could only pass bills each about one specific issue, and that issue had to be the exact title of the bill. No riders, no pork, no more "pass the bill to find out what's in it" But then again, no government can not be crap when it allows non-Whites into it. John Adams effectively said as much.