• Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    A few of our founding fathers were based and are remembered for their true merits as people.

    And the rest were just the most rich and powerful people around at the time. They had to start a war and a new country in order to get away with defrauding England when they joined in on this settler colonial project. They stopped slavery from ending. They chased wealth and valor, and designed the country for their ends.

    WE deserve a new constitution like every other modern country.

    • TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id
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      1 year ago

      Their project was in part to legitimize the transfer of power from the nobility to the elite merchant and “gentleman” farmer class. They were very much a product of their time, just like you and I are today.