Given the current state of affairs..
2006-08-21 10:21:41 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
I agree.
But I'd measure it in RPCVs = Revulsions Per Constitutional Violation.
2006-08-21 10:26:57 · answer #1 · answered by coragryph 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Well they didn't want us to have political parties, they warned us against it, also they didn't want us to be involved in other countries affairs and concentrate on our own country. The way it is now we may as well still be a part of England because we are right back under the control of the elite and really thats what we fought to get away from and enjoy liberty, but now we are becoming citizens of the world and our laws are being over taken by world laws.
2006-08-21 18:00:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
We're nothing like the nation that they formed and envisioned. When Benjamin Franklin said "A Republic, if you can keep it" after he was asked what the founders had decided, he was talking about this nation over the last century.
We have lost our Republic to private financial interests who control both political parties and thus our foreign and domestic policies. We'eve experienced an Administrative coup d'etat and the corporate owned media has failed to tell us.
2006-08-21 17:29:05 · answer #3 · answered by shorebreak 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
I actually think that we have the government that the founding fathers intended us to have.
They gave us freedom in exchange for ceding control of the government to them and they have kept the bargain. We are still free.
Were they not all wealthy men? Wasn't it the wealthy merchants that financed the revolution so they would not have to pay taxes, wasn't manifest destiny their idea, wasn't the subjugation of the native population their idea? Didn't they view non-christians as savages and offer to spare the lives of those who would convert to christianity? Wasn't the indiscriminate killing of women and children in the Clinton-Sullivan campaign their idea? Wasn't spreading freedom across the land their idea?
What is different now? What has changed?
It is we who have not been good stewards of the country. We could have done something long ago, but we never did. Who can we blame but ourselves?
2006-08-21 18:31:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
EVERY single one of our founding fathers had a very clear understanding that the ONLY way to have freedom and democracy was to have a society based entirely on the Christian religion and the morals found in the bible. Even Washington, in his farewell address talked about what would happen if we ever stepped away from the foundations of Christianity. See excerpt:
Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked: Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
It is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government. Who that is a sincere friend to it can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric?
2006-08-21 17:36:17 · answer #5 · answered by Strange question... 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Too many to count.
I like republicanattacksquad's answer. It is amusing to think the founding fathers would support wars of "liberation" in places like Iraq but ignore Darfur and N. Korea, to name a few. Maybe they were more rascist than i realized.
2006-08-21 17:36:52 · answer #6 · answered by Mr. October 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
if you could harness the spinning power of thier disgust for the current state of affairs...
if you could build alittle generator and attach some power lines.
you could solve the worlds energy crisis.
Lets hope for a better tomorrow.
peace-
2006-08-21 17:29:10 · answer #7 · answered by nefariousx 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
over 3000
2006-08-21 17:26:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
somewhere between 3 and 5
2006-08-21 17:27:28 · answer #9 · answered by Audiophile 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
well since the founding fathers supported wars to overturn an oppressive or malfunctioning government they are actually pretty happy that we care enough about other people to help iraq and afghanistan. read the declaration, it clearly states that war is justified in the cases listed above
2006-08-21 17:30:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 6⤋