Bill, if you have a political system that, if not 'set in stone', has been constructed in a way that prevents modernisation and carefully-debated adjustment to that system, then it is seriously flawed.

There are those who are under the misapprehansion that the U.S. of A. is a functioning Democracy.

And since Corporations beame "people", Buckley v. Valeo decided that money is speech and the Citizens United court decision it is even less of one.

Democracy in the U.S. is being deconstructed as I type.