Does the US government act as it was intended by that fathers of this nation?

Question

Do you think the United States government is performing in the manner the founding fathers intended through the founding documents? Explain.

Answer 1

Do any of us act like our Heavenly Father intended?

Answer 2

It's hard to say. People point out that Washington warned about getting into foreign affairs and stay isolated. But that was in different times. Such how people argue that the right to bear arms is obsolete. Much of what the founding fathers intended was way before a global market and information age.

Answer 3

In most respects no.

I'll use the example of the separation of church and State. This was incredibly important to Madison, Jefferson, et al. and yet our current administration seems to think the US government should be Christ based.

George Washington, the Father of our country, and John Adams (Second President of the USA) CLEARLY stated in the 1796 Treaty of Tripoli: "The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian Religion.

James Madison, original mastermind of our Constitution, was an Atheist to the core who loved skewering Christianity. In 1785 he wrote, "What have been [Christianity’s] fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution.”

Thomas Jefferson, who sat down and authored The Declaration of Independence, rarely missed an opportunity to laugh at Christianity. In a letter to John Adams in 1823, he wrote: "The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus…will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter."

More ammo: In 1814, Tommy J. wrote about the Bible's Old and New Testaments, "The whole history of these books is so defective and doubtful -- evidence that parts have proceeded from an extraordinary man; and that other parts are of the fabric of very inferior minds.”

In fact, it was President Jefferson himself who first wrote (to a Baptist church group in 1802), "The First Amendment has erected a wall of separation between Church and State." Therefore, when Jefferson talked about “Nature’s God,” the “Creator” and “divine Providence ” in the Declaration that he wrote, he was being a hippie and referring to a general cosmic energy-- not the Christian God.

Answer 4

I think basically the government works as it was intended. But I think there are many things that have been changed from the way they intended though.

Like seperation of church and state.

Modern "wisdom" believes that means you can not have any reference within publicly supported institutions. I do not think that is what they meant.

To them it meant that the government could not outlaw any church. England had heavy persecution of any religion that was not the Church of England.

I think if our fore fathers could see this change in the meaning of the separation of church and state they would be totally outraged.

Answer 5

The Founding Fathers were explicit in one thing:
We were noy going to be involved in affairs in the Eastern Hemesphere and The Colonial Powers were to stay out of the Americas.

No foriegn alliances
No foriegn aid
No foriegn wars
No deficit spending

Answer 6

NO - otherwise, when they leave office they would go back into public service or work on the family farm - citizens would not continue to pay them a very high salary.

Answer 7

i don't think it really matters that much any more if the government acts as it was intended by our forefathers. much more important is if it acts as it is intented by US, not a bunch of dead guys

Answer 8

Only when Republicans are in office.

Answer 9

they are doing the best they can get away with,

Answer 10

Be quiet.

To be loyal is proof of intellect.
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