How to Start a Society From Scratch

The Constitution of 1787, I think, was as close to perfect as we could have gotten for the people and the geography of the United States in 1787. If our geography were different, we'd have come up with a different kind of thing. And look at the role states play. How do states get determined? Well, in our case, it's a hodgepodge,. But before you know it, it's not so clear that a bicameral legislature with one house based on statehood and the other based on population will ever make sense anywhere but here.