FAR too much faith in 'good faith' actors
Overly absolutist takes on the 1st Amendment that may well pave the way for massive ruptures of and within the Union of the States
The 2nd Amendment's vagueness and ambiguity, which causes not only wanton everyday slaughter, but also helps make RW 'killing fields' scenarios possible, even if not probable
The Electoral College
The very nature of the US Senate, where soon around 30% of the population will control 70% of the seats
Lifetime appointments for the Federal Judiciary
The very nature of the Supreme Court, where 5 (unless the SCOTUS is expanded) unelected, basically unstoppable (other than death) humans, can (going back to the over reliance on good faith) make non-appealable rulings that can say ANYTHING (there is no way to stop a blatantly wrong decision that clearly goes against the Constitution itself, an extreme example being if they were to declare a hypothetical Mississippi law that allows chattel slavery for people deemed to be African-American to be Constitutional, there is no process to actually stop it, other than extraconstitutional means, which likely entails kinetic violence. Or a more easily occurring example, if they were to declare foetal personhood, which instantly outlaws most abortions in all 50 States, then you have a catch-22, wherein the Blue States will NOT comply, which opens up the door to the Red States using that to start to ditch decisions that THEY disagree with OR you have the Federal government enforcing the ruling via the use of force (implied or real), which will likely lead to kinetic civil war and/or secession attempts.)
The first-past-the-post single member district winner-take-all system, which results in a flawed 2 party de facto setup, wherein voter apathy and alienation is paired with a disastrous tendency for one party to gain inordinate power by staking out a ground that appeals to the worst of humanity (the Rethugs, who combine top tier power lust and greed at a system level with hate, fear, racism, fundie religion, etc etc) and welds those voters together into sufficient numbers to manipulate the entire superstructure at all levels.
The over-empowerment of the States to set rules for Federal elections (an example of abuse that can flow from that is State legislatures declaring the popular POTUS vote null and void and sending their own slates of electors, which, IF (going back to the SCOTUS) allowed and approved by the Supreme Court, could flip the POTUS from a Dem (who won the overall popular vote, PLUS the Electoral College if done via those states poplar vote) to a Rethug (AND IF the SCOTUS okays it, it is technically constitutionally legal, but will, more than likely, lead to widespread kinetic violence (perhaps even a civil war) and/or secession attempts) .
The rise of the 'imperial Presidency' due to Constructional loopholes that allow far too much power to be concentrated in it
there are others too, but you get the point I should think
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