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The Constitution isn't a holy text with "teachings".
Even the guys who wrote thought it had a lot of problems, and didn't think it would last 50 years.
It realy should be completely be re-written. With an expiration date built in, to ensure it gets re-written in the future.
The problem is-- who is going to re-write it? This is a serious question. Do you really think a consensus of those currently running the US government could do better than the Framers?
No they won't. But someone will. Because someone would need to. Probably a lot of people. And the states would need to ratify it. If you can get all the states on board with something, it might be better than what we currently have. It might not.
But that doesn't matter. What we have today is broken. Unquestionably, it needs a major overhaul. Nothing lasts forever. Not even the United States of America. The Framers weren't special people. They were ordinary men. No smarter than us today. And we understand the world today much much better than they ever could. So I'd bet on any random one of us, over them.
We come down to the same underlying problem that we have today- the people of the country are not actively engaged in the political process, not nearly to the same degree the Framers intended.
The difference between those people who wrote our constitution and the people we have today is those people recognized the importance of what they were doing. They were willing to stand up and fight and die if necessary to create a free society. Today the inheritors of that free society largely can't even be bothered to vote, let alone put in an hour or two of research to figure out who to vote for.
So I will agree with you that the wording of the original document is imprecise, and a lot of what we now call constitutional law comes as much if not more from various Court decisions than from the document itself. But given the situation that we have currently, I am genuinely curious what you think could be improved? Knowing the players in question who would be writing the new constitution, knowing the amount of influence various people and groups and companies have over our political process, a. What do you think could or should be changed or improved, and b. How likely is it do you think that would actually happen without the process being corrupted?
We don't know who. Members of the current government certainly wouldn't. They have too much invested in the current system. They'd do everything they could to fight it. No revolution ever included officials or influencers from the old government.
As for what changes would be needed? That would be a massive list. Heavily dependent on details.
Generally speaking:
That's just the high flyers off the top of my head.