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[–] 16169836? ago 

Because conservatives have been conditioned to wait for permission to revolt, and all the leadership keeps telling them not to revolt, just give it two years, and at the next elections we'll crush 'em.

Even if you buy into the 'the founders were pseudo-divine' bullshit, the constitution was created as a response to Shay's Rebellion where a bunch of angry colonists marched on an armory in Massachusetts. It was designed to prevent an armed uprising by making elections frequent.