2006-11-02 02:52:48 · 12 answers · asked by ? 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
that's me you're calling ugly, jerk
2006-11-02 02:55:17 · update #1
Yes and Thats one ugly kid you got there.
my bad.
thats one ugly picture you got there then.
2006-11-02 02:54:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Although it doesn't matter what they would think (for it's a vastly different world), I believe the founding fathers provide us with an ideal we can aspire to and a means to measure our society. When personal freedom moves forward, we realize it as a good thing. I'm sure they would be pleased that slavery has been abolished and women now have the vote. In contrast, when we step backward from their ideals of freedom, we can be certain that the founding fathers would be appalled - for instance the NSA's program of spying on civilians or the way Bush eliminated 300 years of liberty when he threw Habeas Corpus into the trash.
2006-11-02 15:36:19 · answer #2 · answered by Cowboy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately the answer is no. The only thing that seems to matter today is the political parties and the people they trample along the path of their ensuring their futures in government or business. Let's face reality, all people that trust government for their entitilements are enslaved to that government for their stipend.
Two absolute abuse of powers passed by the congress are the "War Powers" act and the "Patriot" act. Both passed for our own well-being we are told. The fact is simply this, if you make a law, you add to the chain of enslavement upon the people the law is emposed upon. If you don't make a law you have chaos. The power is in no law to the strong and to the weak when all life is law enforced.
2006-11-02 02:56:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It does. The Supreme Court Justices on both the left and right refer to their writings and speeches regularly to try and discover intent. That they disagree often is because the founders disagreed often.
Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.
James Madison
2006-11-02 02:59:51 · answer #4 · answered by notme 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Society in the political scene would be appalling to them today. It would only make them wonder where they went wrong, like our children make us ask our selves the same.
2006-11-02 03:03:59 · answer #5 · answered by edubya 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Since are founding fathers are all dead, then no it doesn't matter what they think about society today.
2006-11-02 03:01:19 · answer #6 · answered by milky 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
To the extent that our Founding Fathers made law, we ought to obey the law that they made. And if we don't obey their law, then we should wonder about whether they are turning over in their graves.
2006-11-02 03:04:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, because they know what the Constitution was supposed to do, and would consider today's federal government a sick perversion of what they gave us as our birthright.
2006-11-02 03:01:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think so, and I know exactly what they would think about our society today.
2006-11-02 02:56:10 · answer #9 · answered by profile image 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Probably not, but wouldn't it be fun to imagine their reaction to things of today?
2006-11-02 02:55:46 · answer #10 · answered by JAN 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋