knowing full well the fragility of representative democracy. They included a good workable model that they felt could succeed IF things were decided by people of good will, by compromise. In other words, as you noted previously, EXACTLY how the document came about in the first place.

With this much wisdom incorporated in a government predicated on balance and flexibility, it is absurd to say that these men meant for those words to be interpreted solely by way of the context of THEIR times. If they meant it to be so, they certainly didn't say it to be so.