Worst Scourge in Our Country's History

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What is the worst thing our founding fathers decided to do.

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The Third Amendment.

I'll be goddamned if some person is going to come into my home and tell a soldier who is forcing me to quarter then in my house that they can't do that.

Herbert Hoover wore panties.

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Should have just said: “Being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

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I think it is fairly clear that the intent was for the security of the country to rest upon a citizen militia, given the founders' great distrust of standing armies. Basically Swiss style, but it didn't turn out that way.

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Worst Scourge in Our Country's History

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wait a sec

(Goes to dictionary to look up "scourge")

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Should have abolished slavery at the time of the drafting of the document, reimbursed slave owners, and sent the slaves back to their homeland for their own good.

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Both these ideas were rejected as too expensive

For all their abhorrence of political parties, they crafted a system in which control by two major parties is an inevitability.

If our founding fathers could have seen the future, I’m fairly certain they would have instituted mandatory term limits for nationally elected officials. They would be absolutely disgusted with the current system of lobbyists and career politicians that serve decade after decade in Washington while barely doing anything to help the American people or serve their constituents. I can’t see Congress ever voting for term limits on themselves, so something significant in society would have to happen for that to ever change, at this point.

And yes, they should have addressed slavery right off the bat instead of putting it on the backburner. But I understand they didn’t want to risk tearing the country apart right from the get-go. National unity was very fractious for the first several decades.

Still, at the end of the day, Jefferson, Franklin, and Madison got so much right, despite not being able to predict how technology would advance in the future. The Constitution is a remarkable achievement that still holds prescient almost 250 years later.

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What is the worst thing our founding fathers decided to do.

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If you could have shown them 2020 slavery would never have been an issue.


And there would be law against social media

They didn't foresee the rise of private corporations monopolizing publicly accessed spaces as big box stores.