re: #227 A Cranky One

Cute, but except for the woman part, demonstrably false. The FF were eliminating property qualifications as the Constitution was being debated and ratified — they were pretty much all gone by 1804. They were also abolishing slavery — not in the southern colonies, of course, but absolutely they were not uniformly in favor of the institution. Abolitionism didn’t start with the Dred Scott decision.

ETA: Most of the people we call Founding Fathers spent the years between the Stamp Tax Act and the Declaration making themselves the best read government-builders in history. And they spent their spare time debating among themselves, so I’d say they definitely deserve to be listened to — and not in tweet-length bites.