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I think the founders contemplated what we're witnessing and set up the constitution to help prevent it.We have lots of things the constitution never contemplated.
"Help prevent" being key. Had they really wanted to stop/prevent miscreants from acting out they would have inserted punishment for the acting out. But, they obviously didn't think breaking rules was tantamount to crime.
I'm pretty sure they knew that there would be abuse and disregarding of the rules- that's human nature. Rule breaking without repercussion invites rule breaking. I think, at least Jefferson, believed that without virtuous men being elected the rules meant nothing. He was correct.
I don't think they contemplated the onslaught of pseudo intellectuals attacking the basic tenets of Liberty by intentionally being obtuse... but, they do. And thanks to the official dumbing down of the masses (Public Education) they get away with paying lip service to the rules they swear, in the affirmative, to protect and defend.... to the best of their ability- which speaks to their pseudo intellectual obtuseness.
I don't know that early Americans would have rejected the constitution if they had had the vision of the early bearers of Liberty as a premise for living- it seems many didn't side with the founders beliefs and actually wanted a monarchy. It was proposed to Washington that he be a King. He rejected the idea. But, not everyone wanted to be free, as in unencumbered by- they just didn't like a King in Britain telling the colonist how to conduct business (their livelihood) by some having "official" preferential treatment over others, subject to the representatives of the King whims - the edict of man- so, they got enough people on board to agree to a "rule of law" for governing and agreed to the constitution, with the explicit calling out of areas where the new gov't could NOT wield the heavy hand of "official" bullshit to justify interfering in individual lives to excuse the edict of man actions to favor one over another "officially".