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They might have envisioned it during their lifetimes, but I don't see how you can argue that things that happened after the Constitution/BoR were written inform
by cthalupa 11mo ago
They might have envisioned it during their lifetimes, but I don't see how you can argue that things that happened after the Constitution/BoR were written informed their decisions while writing it.
- petcat 11mo agoSo maybe we're saying that the Founding Fathers were, in fact, not visionaries. Maybe they only had the same myopic 10-20 year view that anyone else today does.
- cthalupa 11mo agoI think there is very little our founding fathers would recognize about today's american government, in a wide variety of ways. Jefferson was probably the least myopic among them, in at least recognizing that all humans are myopic and struggle to have any concept of what the future holds.