The people who left Europe and came to America were sick of war. They were sick of fighting and dying because some monarch, a princess from a foreign nation, and now he was claiming that throne. Taxing their people into poverty to pay for their wars.
They wanted freedom from of the corruption of the Catholic Church which meddled in European politics, and barbarity to stop the Reformation. So many of the wars were based on religious differences. The Catholics vs the Church of England, with each side want one of theirs on the throne for the "good of the nation".
The separation of church and state the religious right decries today is one of the Originalist ideas I actually like. But right wingers keep going on about how most/all of the Founders were Christians and they wanted a Christian nation. No they did not. They wanted a completely secular and freedom of religion.
The Spanish Inquisition was still going on in the 18th Century. If you didn't convert to Catholicism, you were tortured until you died or converted. Primarily used against Jews, it was used against Protestants and Reformationists in Catholic Nations.
Spanish Inquisition (1478–1834), judicial institution ostensibly established to combat heresy in Spain. In practice, the Spanish Inquisition served to consolidate power in the monarchy of the newly unified Spanish kingdom, but it achieved that end through infamously brutal methods.
www.britannica.com
The War of the Roses changed the power structure in Great Britain - permanently, and gave rise to the power of the Monarchy over the nobility.
The Wars of the Roses (1455-1487 CE) was a dynastic conflict where the nobility and monarchs of England intermittently battled for supremacy over a period of four decades. Besides the obvious consequences...
www.worldhistory.org
Instead of reading the Constitution in the context of the 21st Century and trying to understand the Founders intentions for your nation through a lens looking backward, read the Constitution as a document of its own time and understand what pitfalls the Founders were trying to avoid in their nation in their own time.
Then ask how they would solve these problems based on TODAY'S mores, culture, technolgies and expectations, not those of 250 years ago.
reason.com
atlantaciviccircle.org
