Is There an Advantage That the Founding Fathers Had Over Us?

If anything, if i would say there was an advantage that the the founders had over us is that is that they thought the key to adjust society as sort of starting by acknowledging that we don't have an an intrinsic tendency for justice. So it was the idea, the recognition that we are not good a, that was the advantage t at they sort of have over us. Yes. Is that fairys, i think that's a fair statement. Ah, and so that kind of scepticism, they weren't cynical, but a kind of sceptic of human nature, a they would have thought was the first step toward a successful experiment in self government.

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