President Jordan Lyman: I know what Scott’s attitude on the treaty is, what’s yours?
Colonel Martin “Jiggs” Casey: I agree with General Scott, sir. I think we’re being played for suckers. I think it’s really your business. Yours and the Senate. You did it, and they agreed so, well, I don’t see how we in the military can question it. I mean we can question it, but we can’t fight it. We shouldn’t, anyway.
President Jordan Lyman: Jiggs, isn’t it? Isn’t that what they call you?
Colonel Martin “Jiggs” Casey: Yes sir.
President Jordan Lyman: So you, ah, you stand by the Constitution, Jiggs?
Colonel Martin “Jiggs” Casey: I never thought of it just like that, Mr. President, but, well, that’s what we got and I guess it’s worked pretty well so far. I sure don’t want to be the one to say we ought to change it.

— Seven Days in May

We have a flawed system.  Sometimes those flaws are almost fatal.  But the founders had the foresight to make it possible to correct these flaws.  It’s not easy to amend the Constitution, but it’s not impossible, either.  I think one of the reasons we’ve been able to keep this thing going for almost two and a half centuries is that our military doesn’t see its role as doing that amending for us.  We still find it offensive when politicians try to ignore it.  While we argue at length at interpretation of what the Constitution means, it’s rare when someone who advocates replacing it entirely is taken seriously.

So long as those things hold true, we’ll find a way through our troubles.  When we stop following them, we are doomed.