Sunk Cost? Also, Tsuyoku Naritai - we can do so much better with the knowledge currently available to us.
This isn't a sunk cost. It's not like we used up a large fraction of our paper supply writing the constitution. Rather, it's a precommitment, a contract, and a schelling point. There are good reasons to be bound be those, so the quote is false.
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