RE: Founding fathers view of government
March 19, 2021 at 6:03 pm
(This post was last modified: March 19, 2021 at 6:24 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
People wondering whether a sitting senators comments are an accurate depiction of historical reality, is who cares. It's pretty material to how the government is being run today since the tiny government myth and founding father fantasism are organizing principles for one of our two political parties.
You point out exactly the type of leeway that was provided for in our founding documentation - our government can do big successful things and big failed things. We can always try something new without needing to start over from scratch - because trying new things was intended, envisioned, and planned for in that founding documentation.
At any rate, the factual reality of the situation for the founders can make alot of our past comprehensible in ways that the myths of americana do not. The general isolationism we begin with was a direct result of not wanting to be embroiled in europes problems , since europes problems and the subsequent plan to fix them via the taxation of the colonies was why they'd lost or seen those desired subsidies and services reduced in the first place. It probably should be mentioned, as well, at this point, that our government was broke. Almost immediately the excise taxes and apparatus to collect them began to grow...and the Whiskey Rebellion was put down before the paint was dry on our new country.
You point out exactly the type of leeway that was provided for in our founding documentation - our government can do big successful things and big failed things. We can always try something new without needing to start over from scratch - because trying new things was intended, envisioned, and planned for in that founding documentation.
At any rate, the factual reality of the situation for the founders can make alot of our past comprehensible in ways that the myths of americana do not. The general isolationism we begin with was a direct result of not wanting to be embroiled in europes problems , since europes problems and the subsequent plan to fix them via the taxation of the colonies was why they'd lost or seen those desired subsidies and services reduced in the first place. It probably should be mentioned, as well, at this point, that our government was broke. Almost immediately the excise taxes and apparatus to collect them began to grow...and the Whiskey Rebellion was put down before the paint was dry on our new country.
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