You can get a college degree in this country and still not even know the nation's founding documents, principles and history??? That stuff should be taught starting in the 8th grade.
Can you list the founding documents and principles?
Yes. I have all four founding documents comprising organic law as per US Code right behind me, next to Paine's Rights of Man and the Federalist Papers.
Excellent work - nice list!
The Federalist Papers are useless.
The Federalist Papers was a campaign effort of newspaper articles favoring the ratification of the Constitution. Our contemporary media pundits, politicians, and legal scholars will refer to passages in the Federalist Papers to bolster their interpretations of the Constitution, and to accuse their political opponents of corruption. It is an error to use the Federalist Papers to defend the Constitution, because the passages quoted to accuse corruption are examples of the authors’ abilities to detect the inadequacies in the Constitution.
The authors of the Federalist Papers did not have the luxury to shore up vulnerabilities in the Constitution. It was an extremely difficult task just to gather the ideas from what was presented in the discussions and debates of the Philadelphia Convention. The drafting committee had to write it in long hand with a dip pen and iron gall ink on calfskin, compose the directive systems that would formulate the institutions, and then return a hard copy for a validation signing. The members of the convention then had to read the hard copy and agree that it accurately described the organization of a government.
The Constitution was very simple and pliable to facilitate the build-up of an expandable government that could not be properly envisioned and composed under the constraints of the era of 1780’s technology. And so, the authors of the Federalist Papers had to disguise their critiques of the Constitution, because they could not describe the obvious problems as, “open-ends,” “faults,” “weaknesses,” or “inadequacies,” because then they would have been obligated to correct the inadequacies before the people would be properly assured of the charter’s quality.
So, it is probably a good idea to understand that the Federalist Papers, which are extremely difficult to understand, anyway, have long passed their utility for justifying the Constitution, especially when one considers the several significant alterations to the original design.
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