My father, a Harvard Graduate, used to say that in Business School, the saying was "If I had more time, I would have wrote a shorter (document.)"

It's true, that our founding fathers wrote short, concise, document(s), the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. They spent a lot of time, effort and energy, in doing it right.

It's not perfect, by any means, but it is the sum total of our founding father's thoughts, very well thought out, at the time.