On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 20:55:02 -0500, George Cleveland
wrote:

On 13 Jul 2004 23:09:45 GMT, (Tom Littleton) wrote:

RDean notes:
IMO, therein lies the problem of bringing "the founding fathers" into
most arguments.

I think one also has to accept that the overall heading of "Founding Fathers"
encompassed a broad range of opinion for the time.

there is very little of what
goes on today that the "founding fathers" would have approved of ....

still, you are transposing the idea of these men frozen in 18th Century
realities and
base of knowledge. What one can credit the assembled group for is merely
creating a Framework. The system that they put in place turned out(by design
and by chance)
to be flexible enough to allow change without mass upheaval. It forced most
change to be slow and deliberate. It made fast, radical change very difficult.
These things make for a flexible, responsible mode of government over the long
haul. They did give such matters some thought.
Tom



I agree.

I think the flexibility that they engendered in the system was their
greatest accomplishment.


g.c.

And how did they allow for change? I refer you to Article 5, and then
to Article 1.

TC,
R