Had they waited a few years longer before writing the Constitution they would have known all about the French Revolution, Jacobins, Robespierre, Danton, the Terror, and all their nonsense. But they might have passed up the chance to have the beautiful Constitution they have us in 1787 and its Bill of Rights that they gave us in 1789. By 1795 it might have proven impossible to come to the compromises that were possible in 1787. That we got these beautiful documents, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, is arguably a real miracle of God, because though they were written by men, they might have been divinely inspired, and though they were written by men, the circumstances that made them possible were just so and the right men were around at the right times who had no great tyrannical ambitions.
They knew more than the average man today, with all our resources and free information available with ease.
They studied ancient civilizations to a depth we don't see outside of some home schools and great colleges. They knew more about tyrants and royalty, philosophers and foundational thinking than collegiate a and professors today! Moral relativism (sophistry) is NOT new, sadly not are sexual deviants (dionysians, and imagine them with power over slaves, even children), heathens and atheists and their arguments against God or all religion in favor of an all-powerful state are also not new.
We on the most part have been very successful and very sheltered from the worst evils, whose followers took advantage of our ignorance and lack of vigilance and grew their underground empire beneath our complacent feet. Now we must be ready to clean house, paying our prosperity and peace back, and then strengthen our foundation and our children to pay it forward as well.
Had they waited a few years longer before writing the Constitution they would have known all about the French Revolution, Jacobins, Robespierre, Danton, the Terror, and all their nonsense. But they might have passed up the chance to have the beautiful Constitution they have us in 1787 and its Bill of Rights that they gave us in 1789. By 1795 it might have proven impossible to come to the compromises that were possible in 1787. That we got these beautiful documents, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, is arguably a real miracle of God, because though they were written by men, they might have been divinely inspired, and though they were written by men, the circumstances that made them possible were just so and the right men were around at the right times who had no great tyrannical ambitions.
They knew more than the average man today, with all our resources and free information available with ease.
They studied ancient civilizations to a depth we don't see outside of some home schools and great colleges. They knew more about tyrants and royalty, philosophers and foundational thinking than collegiate a and professors today! Moral relativism (sophistry) is NOT new, sadly not are sexual deviants (dionysians, and imagine them with power over slaves, even children), heathens and atheists and their arguments against God or all religion in favor of an all-powerful state are also not new.
We on the most part have been very successful and very sheltered from the worst evils, whose followers took advantage of our ignorance and lack of vigilance and grew their underground empire beneath our complacent feet. Now we must be ready to clean house, paying our prosperity and peace back, and then strengthen our foundation and our children to pay it forward as well.
But even Athens succumbed. Nothing is forever. But we should fight to restore the U.S.A., that it should have another 230+ years.