Why do people here seem to care so much about the founding father's and old documents?!

[workingclasshero]

Originally Posted by Wendell Phillips

I have read the Constitution many times, and with every reading I am amazed by this singular document, this blueprint of the structure and function of government, this guarantee of rights and liberty by law - it is unique. It is deceptively simple (only 4,400 words), but on closer examination, its parts have the intricacy and precision of the most complicated timepiece made by George Daniels. It is a masterpiece. It has suffered some bumps and bruises over the years, and it has undergone more than a few amendments; but it has withstood the test of time. I think that we are most fortunate to have this great treasure that is our Constitution.

well said +1

[Alt F4]

Mircea, I'm not sure this is worth your time because you can't teach anything to a brick wall, but please educate these fools on the importance of the Constitution.

Apparently, some of these folks prefer tyranny.

Please crush this thread. I'll learn something too. I always do.

[BentBow]

Originally Posted by LexusNexus

Republicans and Conservatives cling to the sentiments and words of the founding fathers because the founding fathers believed that black people were naturally inferior and that slavery and white superiority/privilege would last forever. The founding fathers were incredibly ignorant regarding this matter, but it is the basis for the Conservative ideology, so they care.

Don't be an idiot about the founding of our nation, please.
An educated black man in the colonies, was not considered a slave. There were many educated black Americans, that help found this nation.
Just to name a few that really stood out.

Peter Salem
Prince Estabrook
Prince Whipple
James Armistead
Wentworth Cheswell
Frederick Douglass
Lemuel Haynes
Benjamin Banneker


Many founders recognized that slavery was wrong and was opposite to the ideas of freedom and personal liberties that the American Revolution fought for.

There was the South, who wanted to keep slavery and the road block was a threat to the union of our infant nation. As a compromise, they came up with the idea of counting slaves as “three-fifths” for the purposes of representation and apportionment.
If a slave was not worthy of freedom like any other American, then he should not really be counted for the purposes of representation and apportionment. The Southern states saw how this would harm them in the federal government, so they compromised by counting slaves at three-fifths of a free person.
It made it harder for pro-slavery states to get as much representation in congress; thus the anti-slavery states would have greater representation in apportionment…and in making laws for the nation in general. This was done to give the South an incentive to free their slaves so that their overall population numbers would increase and give the Southern states greater representation and apportionment.


Of course, the truth doesn’t fit the liberal narrative of America as an evil place, a place founded by evil rich slave-owning white guys (and there is some truth to that: some founders were wealthy, and some did own slaves) that has always been a place of great inequality. The truth doesn’t advance the culture of victimhood promoted by the modern Left in America.


Read some books by David Barton, then research it yourself.

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Please don't feed the trolls.

[nononsenseguy]

Originally Posted by momonkey

The Founders gave us the Constitution without a sunset provision because they understood that while many things change over time, human nature does not.

There will always be someone that would deprive others of their rights.

There will always be those that join with such a person.

The Constitution gives the rest of us a means by which to resist dictatorship.

Absolutely correct.