They believed men of good character could come together and compromise for the good of the nation. Compromise then was seen as a virtue. Today it is viewed as a weakness by many Republicans (and many far-left wing Democrats too).
Donald Trump has taken that belief one step further. He sees "real" Americans. And those that are not "real" must be investigated and targets for revenge. And, sadly, not what the Founding Fathers had in mind.
The majority of voters in the 2016 election cast their vote for someone else. But, thanks to one plank in the American experiment, he moved into the Oval Office. The Electoral College effectively negated the concept of "majority rule with the rights of the minority protected."
@RebelScum76Constitution4mos4MO
Apparently you know absolutely nothing about the founding fathers because they
(1) Did not create what you call a "nation" but a Confederation of fully independent and autonomous states, with a Federal government limited to 18 carefully listed powers contained in the Constitution, and checked by state nullification and secession whenever it exercised a power not listed in the Constitution, any action the federal government takes not SPECIFICALLY ALLOWED FOR in the Constitution is "null and void."
(2) They detested and abhorred democracy, James Madison calling democracies &qu… Read more
