People who do not like the Constitution have convinced themselves that the document was a rigged game from day one.
I don't try to teach pigs to sing.
I do not buy into the conspiracy theory that the Constitution was a rigged game. You see, I read the text, and I have read about the men involved. Yes, there were solid men of Liberty who refused to come to the table. Yes, there were men at the table who wanted a strong - approaching tyrannical - central Government. And the end result was a compromise.
I read the text and I know that if every person who swore an oath to abide the Constitution would actually read the text and act accordingly, 99% of our problems as a society would end.
People condemn George Washington for the Whiskey Rebellion. To paint Washington as evil for his actions during the Whiskey Rebellion is to accept that he was evil prior and after, and that is simply a position I can't accept.
I think he was wrong and made a mistake. That mistake was listening to Hamilton versus Jefferson. Many of our problems today can be traced to this one, early mistake of George Washington - taking the counsel of Hamilton over that of Jefferson.
What it proves is Daniel Webster was correct: There will always be men who mean to be Masters.
It also proves the wisdom of Jefferson.
You and I see the problems with the Constitution, it is not perfect. But more importantly, I think we recognize that it is not the fault of the Constitution, but of the men who pervert it, and those of us who tolerate those perversions.
Let's clean our house of Traitors to the Constitution, and Liberty will be revived by the following sunrise.
Kerodin
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