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Does it matter how they would have seen themselves, for the modern outcomes I listed above?
by ethbr0 4y ago
Does it matter how they would have seen themselves, for the modern outcomes I listed above?
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y agoI think it probably does. If the founders saw themselves as already facing issues with a diverse population ("those scots-irish, jeesh"), then presumably they took that into account with the design of the government. If they didn't, then it would be correct to say that the Constitution (etc.) does not pay any attention to the implications of a more diverse population.
- ethbr0 4y agoAh. I'd say that by any definition of "diverse", we're more diverse now. So whether they saw themselves as diverse or not, they weren't trying to solve the problem to the degree to which it now needs to be solved. Or, in other words, they designed a flexible democracy for the world they perceived and the world they could imagine, but at some point imagination fails.