Misrepresenting our Founding Fathers (to include other notable free-thinkers)

[Chas]

The founders of the U.S., especially the authors of its Constitution, were gentlemen of The Enlightenment. The U.S. Constitution is a brilliant document, an architecture for government that has stood up well due to its clarity and flexibility.

The enlightenment was not as enlightened as many people think.

Is it perfect? No. Is it mutable? Yes, and that is part of their genius.

That is pritty much the only good thing about the original document.

Yeah, I guess individual rights, separation of powers, checks and balances, enumerated powers, clear succession, etc. are nothing much.

So I suggest you be not quite so dismissive of hearkening back to their writings and ideas.

But I will be, they may have known that the document will have to be changed, but most of their other ideas are completly rejectable.

See above. You just sound ignorant. Or rigidly anti-American.

And before you all start in, I'm a Canadian.

Does nationality play a role in this?

No, I wanted to avoid the almost inevitable piling on from that anti-American faction.