RE: Misrepresenting our Founding Fathers (to include other notable free-thinkers)
July 24, 2013 at 2:50 am
Then it is probably important to remember EXACTLY what it was that the constitution established when it was written.
A white, male, paradise which disenfranchised women, blacks, and Indians, and which allowed slavery. Senators were appointed. The principal of court review of the constitutionality of laws had not been established and there was no bill of rights. What tea bagging shitheads call, "the good old days!"
It has been improved over the centuries but one could make the argument that the leadership of the rebels, generally wealthy merchants and planters, were merely seeking to replace the British aristocracy with themselves.
A white, male, paradise which disenfranchised women, blacks, and Indians, and which allowed slavery. Senators were appointed. The principal of court review of the constitutionality of laws had not been established and there was no bill of rights. What tea bagging shitheads call, "the good old days!"
It has been improved over the centuries but one could make the argument that the leadership of the rebels, generally wealthy merchants and planters, were merely seeking to replace the British aristocracy with themselves.
