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The founders were also deathly afraid of a standing army. This is why a defense authorization bill is passed every two years. People might debate how much money
by whoknew1122 4y ago
The founders were also deathly afraid of a standing army. This is why a defense authorization bill is passed every two years. People might debate how much money should be put toward defense spending, but few people would argue that we should dissolve the military and call up citizens only when conflict happens.
They also explicitly dismissed the idea of one person, one vote.
And this all ignores the fact that there wasn't a singular, cohesive founding vision. Alexander Hamilton, for example, argued for a strong federal government.
With all that said, we shouldn't be hamstrung by what a deeply flawed group of people decided in the late 1700s.
- sieabahlpark 4y ago
- MichaelCollins 4y ago> With all that said, we shouldn't be hamstrung by what a deeply flawed group of people decided in the late 1700s. Bringing this back to the discussion at hand, your point seems completely off the mark and basically irrelevant. The current copyright regime is nothing like what was created by those men hundreds of years ago. In the late 18th century after the country was founded, copyright was limited to 14 years plus another 14 year extension if the author was still alive. Going back to that would be a great idea.
- boxed 4y agoAmericans use the supposed will of the founding fathers to justify quite random stuff. It's just an excuse yea.