There are better alternatives, and if legislatures were designed to come up with optimal solutions, we'd probably have use one of them. Instead we have inertia, because the Sainted Holy Founders thought inertia was good for a country, so they optimized legislative branches to be useless.
It was not.
How do some assume the American founding fathers thought ahead, and had it all planned out, with good solutions (instead of merely solutions),
...while also being aware of the Flynn effect?
Sometimes that means using a ouija board to assert that some vague passage happens to mean what they want it to mean.
> "I think just the fact that it was the first thing on offer that wasn't the thing they were already using."
Instead of just assuming things - aka making things up - you could check.
For the Declaration, Articles, and later the Constitution specifically, much of the Founder Father's reasoning and conclusions were well-documented in public via published letters, essays, and speeches at the time. No ouija board necessary.