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Maybe America just wants to have a parliamentary system?

Americans, God bless 'em, revere the Constitution even if they disagree on what it says.

Heck, they revere the Constitution even when they don't know what it says. More than a third of Americans surveyed by the Annenberg Center for Public Policy in 2017 couldn't name a single freedom enumerated in the First Amendment. Only 26 percent could name all three branches of government, and 33 percent couldn't name a single branch.

But they love the Constitution nonetheless.

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