Again, I appreciate your insights, Chuck. It was your second president, John Adams, who said, "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." I think that matters for the USA started to go seriously awry in 1964. Lloyd Wright and John C. Satterfield (past presidents of the American Bar Association) said of the Civil Rights Act, 1964 "It will completely destroy democracy as outlined in the Constitution...It is uncontrolled federal executive power, a blueprint for total regimentation." Quite clearly, vociferous lobby groups become catalysts for such regimentation and John Adams's warning and that of Wright and Satterfield are coming home to roost.
Concerning the War of Independence, Great Britain lost sight of a principle that was succinctly expressed by writer and historian, Thomas Carlyle: "If you will have your laws obeyed without mutiny, see well that they be pieces of God Almighty's Law; otherwise, all the artillery in the world will not keep down mutiny." You folks need a mutiny in favour of your Constitution, as we do ours.