It strikes me that our country, if you take its foundation as 1840, is really only a couple of lifetimes old, not much more. It's also a very small nation; 5 million people could fit into dozens, if not hundreds, of cities around the world. That has led us to have one of the most anaemic constitutional setups of any country on Earth. If you think about it, most countries have some combination of a written constitution, of an Upper House, of states or provinces, sub-national governments. We are alone in the world, almost, having a single Parliament, a unicameral House, just one layer, that if you have a majority, you can theoretically do anything. It's a winner-takes-all approach to democracy that is an outlier in the world's democratic systems.