Slightly Expanded Comment From Elsewhere

Universal suffrage starting with white men without property,  abolition of slavery,  Women's suffrage,  true equality for all, the rights of workers and economic justice, environmental protection, . . .  for crying out loud CHILDHOOD NUTRITION AND HEALTH CARE have all, ALL had to struggle against the Constitutional order and the "rule of law" as ministered by the courts and that most corrupt of all branches of the government, the Supreme Court.    It has been an oligarchy by design of the framers, all else, the best thing about the United States has been a struggle against that oligarchy.