What ideals were the founding fathers of the US espousing when they got together to organize a country?

Answer 1

It's all in the Constitution, the Federalist Papers, and the Bill of Rights.

Read them youself. They're not very long and you'll be better off for it. Don't trust anything anybody here says. They'll twist the facts around to support their own agenda.

Answer 2

The first exercise in democracy. They were expected to fight for the crown, but did not recieve recognition.'For king and country' just doesnt cut it when you get home from fighting the french and indians and find your family slaughtered.
Also the british government was taxing the colonies and wouldnt give them representation in parliment.
The main thing: ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL, from slave to free, rich and poor. The foundations for freedom were built back then, even though it took many years to reach the goal. Some of the founding fathers were ahteists, and still agreed that Judeo-Christian values should be what the country is founded on. That freedom flame was lit, and hasnt gone out since.
Many people spit hatred at the U.S.. and try to re-write history. If the U.S. STINKS SO BAD, why do we have 11 million illegal aliens? We have over a million applications for citizenship a year. Greedy bastards? People running from the law? Kicked out of their own country?Yes, but mainly F R E E D O M. FREEDOM to be what I want to be. Unfortunately, many are irresponsible with their freedom, and do STUPID stuff, making America a pretty dangerous place, but with great liberty comes great danger. I LOVE IT!
GOD BLESS THE USA!!!!

Answer 3

I love Yahoo answers because you can tell who the ignorant people are right off the bat. (Hint: those people who are complaining about rich white people [usually with copious misspellings] are not the educated ones). You should read the Federalist Papers. They are widely available online or in your local library. It's interesting because you will soon find that there were actually quite divergent views in the beginning about what this country would become. The people in positions of power in the colonies were not all one big happy family and there was considerable squabbling about what form of government we should have. Fortunately, they got it pretty well figured out. And while we are far from perfect, I think that it all turned out rather well.

Answer 4

The greatest concept so far expressed by man is that ALL mankind is created equal, and endowed by the Creator with the inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Now if we could just make that the governing principal by which our social and economic systems were run we could create paradise on Earth.

Answer 5

The ideals of the European Enlightenment and the writings of John Locke.

Answer 6

I'm Canadian but I'll take a stab at it. If I remember correctly from my American History class they were all about equality for their fellow MAN, John Locke's writings about freedom, liberty and justice . However they did not practice what they preached. Slavery, women's rights etc.

Answer 7

1) a way to allow people to change their government if they weren't happy with it
2) a way to ensure the government would be set up with checks and balances so as to avoid tyranny
3) separation of church and state

Answer 8

Get an anthology of John Locke. They basically plagiarized him in places.

Answer 9

That King George should go bugger off.

Answer 10

i suggest you read the constitution and the federalist papers...these great men can tell you far better than i.