Thoughts on the Founders After Reading

After reading, I discovered when the founders were starting out they really didn't know what they were doing. They were unsure about many things. Nobody had ever done anything like this in America so they did not have much to go by. They were also humble and knew that they were going to need the help from the citizens to get them started. One committee could not do this all by themselves! They did not have as much research and other sources that we have now. They were all on their own and enjoying it. They enjoyed the thrill. This uncertainty was called the Enlightenment. It declared self-evident truths about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. As I was saying earlier they didn't have much to go by, they were able to use ideas from other countries though. The Fable of Founder Certainty provides the idea that the founders were full of doubts which I'm sure they were but there doubts ended up helping them for the better. Locke had a unique philosophy. He believed everything can be seen in different perspectives. Your senses are different from others so the way you perceive something may be different from someone else's. The United States Constitution was written, unlike other countries. Locke's theory proved that our constitution could be interpreted different ways because it was written down. If you read the constitution for yourself you may interpret it differently than another person. The American revolutionaries had questions and they wanted answers so they began to research. Some things they declared and others they had to suppose, wonder, question and ponder a little bit longer. The revolutionaries have proven that having doubts is okay. You don't have to know everything. They didn't know everything and look at what all they did for our country. New answers lead to new questions and the curiosity never stops. What will we discover next?