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It really is as if a large % of Americans never attended school - even primary and middle school.
Didn't folks learn the basics of history? It has been a long slow and tough slog toward liberty and these rights - most American history starts with the Greeks and gives them credit for philosophies pointing toward the present. Then they do onward to Rome which didn't improve on them much, but did spread some ideas of self-governance (although under the rule of Rome).
But the history I was taught in middle school used the Magna Carta as the example of words which formed the modern world....and most everything that followed used that basis. Obviously things change and need to be updated, added to, etc. - and that is what we have today.
One of the craziest ideas going around (more on the right - the Federalists and Originalists) is that the US Constitution came from high above. But if one reads about the writing of it, it's quite clear that it was simply a distillation of British ideals....stripped of the Monarchy and Church. Pretty simple, really.
The rest was just working out the details - many of which ended up wrong (amendments, need for Bill of Rights, etc.)....and, once again today, we are having problems due to lack of updating.
The system has been "gamed" so deeply that it is no longer functioning as intended. We now have government by minority instead of majority. We have gerrymandering that would make the founders shudder. We have political parties in charge of the entire election setup in a state...including counting the votes!
To quote the founders, our system was designed for an upright and moral people. We don't have that. So we are now gored with our own sword.
So the founders got it all wrong? Just the parts you disagree with? You don't believe in God?
The founders were statists. I never signed their documents anyway.
God? Never think about it.
Rights come from existence. If not, I'm a slave to anyone who simply wishes to impose their will on me.
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