NOT EVERYTHING IS FORESEEN

Not everything can be foreseen. In the current United States Constitution, for example, there have been 27 Amendments added to the original base document, that was first drafted in 1789. The national Constitution itself was drafted to remedy the weak and the ragged "states' rights"-laden "Articles of Confederation," the first national government document which came into being in 1781, the year that the British surrendered to the colonies to end the American Revolution. Thus, Britain giving her surrender gave birth to this new nation of diverse state traditions, cultures, vested interests, principal economies, geographical locales. That first government document was designed to be weak by state interests who were distrustful of centralized authority. However, the warm spirit of "citizen democracy" had filtered all the way down to the farmers of western Massachusetts, whose land-based interests were given short shrift by the big wigs in Boston until the farmers marched under arms to the Springfield , Massachusetts armory, in the winter months, where they were repulsed by the mouths of cannon, supplied by Massachusetts, the Confederation Congress lacking funds, due to an inability to tax. New York, then the new national capital, took due notice of "Daniel Shay's Rebellion" in 1787, enough notice and alarm to be convinced of the need for a strong national defense against enemies, foreign and domestic of any occupation. "God forbid we should ever go twenty years without such a rebellion [Shay's Rebellion, 1787]. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time by the blood of patriots; it is its natural manure." Thus wrote Virginia's Thomas Jefferson from Paris, France, a diplomatic post, far away from the rasping fears assailing all others, nearer to men seeking land. --Thomas Jefferson. Quoted in THE SUMMER OF 1787 by David O. Stewart (2007), p.18. https://nccs.net/online-resources/us-constitution/amendments-to-the-us-constitution/amendments-11-27/amendment-27-changes-in-salaries-of-senators-and-representatives