From what I can gather, and this is after reading the letters from John Adams to his family and between himself and Thomas Jefferson, the wisdom of the founding fathers is suspect at best. They were neither fools nor geniuses, and they were contending with the issues of their time they best they could.
Many decisions were seriously entertained such as allowing George Washington, or rather the office of the President, as a lifelong term. They seriously considered the most oddball and seditious concepts we would revile today. They also changed the goalposts on what we think of as sacred tenets. They did not create the perfect union or the perfect republic. They simply did the best they could and adjusted their views as situations arose. I think that was perhaps the wisest thing they did out of everything.
To sit there and set in stone the concepts from 200 years ago under circumstances that look little like what we face today, is incredulous and idiotic.
For those reasons, I called you a stupid dumbass. Historic tenets are great and all, and widely vary. The United States of the late 1700's was not the United States of the mid 1800's, and is radically different than our United States of today.
