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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (54773)	8/17/2002 10:11:04 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 82486

Really? I think the Constitution is a pretty brilliant piece of work. And that our founding fathers were unusually intelligent liberal men. I do not know who I could equate them to in our time- for they were humane and extremely well educated revolutionaries. Who in politics has anything like their erudition today? There was pettiness to be sure- but the Adams's liberality to people of color, and Mr. Adams view on the status of women (helped by Abigail) and Jefferson's views on religion, and Franklin's views on just about everything, were so far ahead of their time, or out of their time, I really think it was an odd confluence of gifted men, at an historical inflection point. We could have been like Canada and Australia, and continued as a colony- it wouldn't have been so bad. But we didn't, because of a few elite, educated, men with a vision, that was not simply a vision for the elite- so I'm not sure they were all as self-interested as you think they were. I think that is probably what is so unusual about the whole thing. The humanity and the lack of selfishness in the document, and in the actions taken at the time. Washington could easily have gotten himself made king- but he didn't.