My first views on Founding Fathers

 I believe the founding fathers are some of the most important people in American history, and rightly so because they basically started the whole country. Still it's crazy how the way the government was almost built to fail, then the fathers saved the country with ratifying the constitution. The way the unicameral system was put into place because in Britain they had no representation and no power was given to the states. The effect was overcompensation when making the new United States. Knowing that the constitution was going to fail the ratifyists (that's what I'm going to call them) saw the wrongs in the country and changed it into the longest lasting constitution in the world. The ideas of checks and balances, bicameral legislative branch, the way the justice system has a way of working out, and the fact that there is not a KING. Also it is amazing how they still stayed true to the beliefs that started the revolution including no taxation without representation and Locke's natural rights. But we also have to address the lines in the constitution that at the time were not true to the fold. The statement that, "all men are created equal," is a statement that at the time just meant rich white guys with land. This does not include African American slaves or the fact of women not having suffrage rights. This is one of the few tweaks that Jefferson did not tell the whole truth, maybe to him, but not to readers who will follow every word