I almost always tell people to remember others in the context of the time, in which they lived. Especially the founders. However, seeing how far we’ve let this go, myself squarely included, I have to believe that they were simply better people, temporal restraints included.
Those dudes discovered a bountiful land which their rulers couldn’t take from them. They existed, in their eyes, to ensure that this new land wouldn’t be ruled over by dipshit tyrants.
They took great care, by law, to make sure their heirs couldn’t be taken over. They didn’t know that the same authoritarian evil that they had seen would come to take their heirs, using different tactics. How could they have seen it?
I almost always tell people to remember others in the context of the time, in which they lived. Especially the founders. However, seeing how far we’ve let this go, myself squarely included, I have to believe that they were simply better people, temporal restraints included.
Those dudes discovered a bountiful land which their rulers couldn’t take from them. They existed, in their eyes, to ensure that this new land wouldn’t be ruled over by dipshit tyrants.
They took great care, by law, to make sure their heirs couldn’t be taken over. They didn’t know that the same authoritarian evil that they had seen would come to take their heirs, using different tactics. How could they have seen it?
They did see it! That's why we have the 2A and the convention of states and the right for states to nullify and secede.
They wrote extensively about it and exactly what forms it would take. They predicted how it would fall from the very beginning.