re: #251 Dark_Falcon

I know he wrote that, but he was wrong. The Founders knew they owed those who had fought for the Revolution and they did work to pay that doubt with a government which avoided the abuses of the previous colonial regime. Indeed, the early attempts to avoid having a standing army signaled a desire to rule by consent instead of imposition.

I think his version is a lot closer to the reality than the myth that is sold to us of a popular revolution of common people out fighting tyranny.