The Founders were some very intelligent men. There are numerous examples of where they predicted almost everything that could/would/is going wrong with our modern forms of Government.
So what is the problem? Why are "We the People" not screaming bloody murder? How have they come to subvert the Constitution over and over in their individual and/or ideological pursuits? And why are we not forcing our kids to realize this too?
Here is where you can see the Constitution in its easiest form.
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html
Here are few examples from some of the greatest political minds in our history. Feel free to add some more of your favorites:
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
You could spend days drawing the comparisons of the Founders fears and the current installment of our government. Each year it gets more and more blurred and subverted.
So what is the problem? Why are "We the People" not screaming bloody murder? How have they come to subvert the Constitution over and over in their individual and/or ideological pursuits? And why are we not forcing our kids to realize this too?
Here is where you can see the Constitution in its easiest form.
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html
Here are few examples from some of the greatest political minds in our history. Feel free to add some more of your favorites:
Abraham Lincoln
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves”.
“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”
Thomas Jefferson
"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground."
"As to the species of exercise, I advise the gun. While this gives a moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise, and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body, and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks. Never think of taking a book with you."
"I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground: That "all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States or to the people." To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible of any definition."
"If a member of the Executive or Legislature does wrong, the day is never far distant when the people will remove him. They will see then and amend the error in our Constitution which makes any branch independent of the nation."
"You seem to consider the judges the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges … and their power [are] the more dangerous as they are in office for life, and are not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control. The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. It has more wisely made all the departments co-equal and co-sovereign within themselves … . When the legislative or executive functionaries act unconstitutionally, they are responsible to the people in their elective capacity. The exemption of the judges from that is quite dangerous enough. I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society, but the people themselves."
"When all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the centre of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated."
"The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working underground to undermine our Constitution from a co-ordinate of a general and special government to a general supreme one alone. This will lay all things at their feet. … I will say, that “against this every man should raise his voice,” and, more, should uplift his arm."
James Madison
"The internal effects of a mutable policy are [...] calamitous. It poisons the blessings of liberty itself. It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what it will be tomorrow."
"All power is originally vested in, and consequently derived from, the people. That government is instituted and ought to be exercised for the benefit of the people; which consists in the enjoyment of life and liberty and the right of acquiring property, and generally of pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. That the people have an indubitable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to reform or change their government whenever it be found adverse or inadequate to the purpose of its institution."
"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."
You could spend days drawing the comparisons of the Founders fears and the current installment of our government. Each year it gets more and more blurred and subverted.