>> ^marbles:

Says the guy who doesn't know what a market is.
But I guess those founding fathers and framers of the Bill of Rights were just a bunch lunkheads.
Ironic quote of the day:
"As one of Jefferson’s favorite books, Gibbon’s ‘Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,’ so luminously argued, there is no surer sign of a country’s cultural and political decay than obtuse blindness to its unmistakable beginnings." - Simon Schama


Religious extremists too crazy for Europe streaming to their new Jerusalem across the sea, they and their offspring etc killing tens of thousands of aborigines and letting imported "non-humans" and indentured servants work on their farms and plantations for the compensation of little food, poor shelter and occasional rape and beatings.
Oh those unmistakable beginnings... It's good all those slaves, indentured servants and Native Americans could enjoy all these liberties and rights.
Oh wait, you were speaking just about the constitution and the Bill of rights? Well they sure got everything right with the first drafts and there are no mistakes at all in any of these documents.