America has been a federal government-driven "Top-Down" society for 156 years- (A Harsha Sankar Letter)

 

The U.S Constitution is hardly followed. While certain minor revisions need to be implemented  because governance now is different than it was when it was written. Since the birth of the nation till the onset of the American Civil War, America had "State-driven governance." The individual States were the controlling authority in providing governance. The only obligation they had to federal government was its obedience to the American Constitution, mainly the Bill Of Rights. The signers of the American Constitution wrote that document with the intent of having that type of governance.

Because America's model of governance fundamentally changed after the American Civil War, certain changes in that document are needed to reflect that. These needed alterations have to reflect the fact that the federal government since 1865 has been, is currently, and will be the sovereign government authority.

America has been a federal government-driven "Top-Down" society for 156 years. Whether or not it is an improvement over the original governance is an individual's interpretation. It is neither more nor less moral or principled. Rather it is just another form of the Republic that the People have apparently  accepted since that change in governance was made.   

Cliff Notes Version: Before the highly "bloody" American Civil War, America was similar to what the European Union is now.

Each state was a member-state in American nation. Each state has sovereignty over domestic matters as the federal government only concerned itself with international matters, such as tariffs. 

That changed after the onset of the "War Between The States". The federal government then became the sovereign government authority. They then had the authority to pass legislation on domestic matters. Their laws were allowed to supersede state laws. 

America became a different Republic. The US Constitution should be changed to reflect that America's governance became federally-centric since the 1860s.