That "same beast" is the constitution of the United States of America? That beast is the corporate charter which authorizes the USA, Inc. d/b/a Government and that corporate charter is known as the constitution. Remember the colonies were corporations.
The failure to stop corruption, to hold rational elections, to produce worthy elected, and to obtain government focused on human life quality can be discovered in the failures of the constitution. ---
The constitution is a document. ---- It authorizes human agents to act on behalf of a corporation [USA, Inc DBA "USA" and the "document prescribes that elected agents shall animate its dictates with human action [government c/n respond or act]. --------- ---- The constitution authorizes humans to animate "prescribed constitutional purpose" ---------which the agents use to -------------------.
1. impose against the unelected governed humanity debt, liability, duty, and 2) accomplish personal, private, and nefarious intentions. 3) can keep private, even secret, everything they do (rationality, not the constitution, causes animators to justify their secrets [for example defense or citizen privacy] but the constitution does not require, as I think it should, full, fair, timely disclosure by animators or actors acting under the color or authority of constitution in their role as animators of the corporate fiction called government ----
That constitution dictates elections, but it fails to impose rationality as a condition of conduct or performance while in office.
That constitution does not prescribe a way for the 99% to amend the constitution and the prohibition against depriving "life, liberty or pursuit of happiness, found in 16th amendment, does not extend to federal constitutional government. The failures of our government, can be found in the design failures of the constitution, and as is the case with other governments, in the documents that authorize the animators of such sitting other governments.