What would the founding fathers say?

Question

I have seen a lot of liberal(or at least they seem liberal) talking about the founding fathers. "what would they think about bush" etc. My question is, what would they think about the liberal views....Do you think they would support abortion, to you think they would vote for gay marriage? Do you think they would say that the pledge should have the words under god removed? I guess there are a lot of things that they would not approve of....on both sides....

Answer 1

The founding fathers believed in limited government. That the government could not infringe upon the rights of the individual. Like it or not, things like abortion and gay marriage are individual decisions. They would probably think that these decisions should be left up to the family or individual. Therefore, I believe our founding fathers would have wanted the government to stay out of these decisions. As for the words under God, they deliberately left God out of the Declaration of Independence and instead said Creator. That way they were merely recognizing a higher power other than man without establishing any kind of religion. Allowing people to recognize their higher power whether it was a God or not. They were not to fond of the government being involved in religion. That is why in the First Amendment it says the government cannot establish a religion or prohibit the free exercise thereof. They probably would not like the words under God, because that comes close to establishing a religion. As for Bush I believe that they would not approve of a single act of what he is doing. Considering most of the legislation like the Patriot Act and Military Commissions Act of 2006 violates the very Constitution they wrote.

Answer 2

After reading the Federalist papers for College, I believe some would have to agree with GW on most issues. They would understand gay rights although getting Married would fail. Abortion to people that had such a high rate of infant Mortality would seem very confusing. Closing the borders No checking people in yes! They were very much into the word GOD they were Christians they had Jews amongst them and Knew of Islam. They understood Division and they Understood all to well the need to stick together in war and in supporting the troops!

Answer 3

Yes, they would not like what they would see in America, but they would still be proud of the country as a whole, because they added a Bill of Rights to the Constitution so that people could have the right to be wrong, if you will.

Even if the great majority of the country would turn atheist and Christianity became a minority, the Founding Fathers would still believe that this country is the best in the world because it is better for many individuals to freely choose wrong or immoral beliefs than to have policies that are right or moral forced on them by a dictator or king.

So really one of the main principles of Democracy is allowing the people in it to have free will, similar to how God has given all humans Free Will so we can freely choose to love Him, because love and virtue are the products of freedom and unconditionality, not force and control.

Answer 4

The thoughts of the Founders on the proper role of government in the lives of a free people are recorded. We call it the Constitution. In the cause of liberty, they were very careful not to give the power of naming rights to a popular lawmaking majority. Control of the Charter that created the Constitutional Republic of States we call the United States of America (and control of the government they created) remains in the hands of the states. Newly conceived rights can be debated and legislated but until at least 38 states agree to it and language is added to the Constitution to make it a proper constitutionally protected right, that new "right" is subject to being simply legislated out by a different popular lawmaking majority. You see, to add a right in the form of an amendment to the Constitution is to remove it from the realm of politics and guarantee that it will never be dependent upon the outcome of any election. Personally, after 218 years, I would be very interested in hearing from them on what could be done to improve the "chains" they originally used to tie down the government, to keep it from causing harm. What harm? Being completely successful in consolidating 50 states into one big state with one big government that owes one big debt to be paid by people as yet unborn and having no say in how their money is being spent.

Answer 5

They most likely would tell the liberals they are trying to destroy this country.

Washington would then use his sword of President Summoning and deploy Lincoln, Grant and Teddy Roosevelt in a pincer movement to surround the worst of the lot and then Ben Franklin would sing to them. Ted Kennedy's brain would explode from the horrible sound that was coming from Franklin's song. Pelose, Durbin, Kerry, and Robert (KKK) Byrd would run to the nearest highway and try to get hit by oncoming traffic to avoid the noise. Jack Murtha would grab Washington's sword and kill himself rather than listen to Franklin anymore. Byrd, somehow unable to kill himself in the traffic comes back to the field and promptly gets smacked on the head with The Emancipation Proclamation carried by Lincoln. Byrd is instantly teleported back to the 1860's into the body of a young ***** named Toby just before Toby's foot is cut off for trying to escape. Roosevelt fed up with Hilliary's whining, hits her over the head the big stick and sends her back to the Spanish American War as a nurse. Hilliary ends up getting killed by the troops for poor medical treatment....

More than likely, they would show the Democrats the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence and say in unison "See what we wrote, now do what it says or someday someone will put in a government that will. Either by the vote, or by the sword"

Answer 6

I think they would say freedom above all.

"Do you think they would say that the pledge should have the words under god removed?"

"under God" was added later because of the Cold War.

Answer 7

Considering they dispised the opression of liberty, some of themwere ugh gay, yes shocking isn't it, they did not belive in inter fearance in foregion internal politics, I'd wager to say they'd be plotting an over throw, read the feredalist papers, read any of Jefferson's writtings, you'll see

Answer 8

> Do you think they would support abortion
Yes

> they would vote for gay marriage?
Yes

> have the words under god removed?
Yes.

They would be appalled at the size of the Federal Government, and the large amount of taxation compared with the small amount of representation.

Answer 9

They would immediately call out the militias and tell them to remove that pretender from the White House.

Answer 10

If our founding fathers knew about the issues that you just mentioned, they would spin in their graves.