"Tarver Engineering" wrote:
No, the Founders were far from being of one mind.
So far, so good.
The Federalists
(librtarians) had ultimate control in creating the Republic,
Excuse me, you are linking the Federalists (Hamilton, Madison and Jay
at the core) with the Libertarians who oppose a strong central
government? The Federalists were the ones seeking central focus.
Libertarians are the opposite.
with those of
democratic persuasion placing the 3/5 law into the Constitution (democracy
ultimately leads to the opression of the minority)
The 3/5ths compromise was a black day in America's history, but to
attribute it to a desire to oppress a minority is wrong. It may be
viewed that way in 20th Century, post-civil-rights thinking, but it
was simply a mechanism to deal with the large states/small states
proportional representation question. A "deal with the devil" if you
will, but don't ascribe malicous motives to the action.
and those of the
republicn (anti-federalists)
No "republicn" until after Lincoln. You might want to label them
"Whigs".
way of thinking wanting the Bill of Rights.
The "Bill of Rights" (not an original American creation, by the way)
was added only after the 1787 convention had once tried to get the
document ratified. It wasn't a particularly anti-federalist action,
but simply an acknowledgement that while the Constitution spelled out
what the government "can" do, the people demanded guarantees of what
the government "can't" do.
Later, Jefferson created the Democratic Republican Party and defeated the
Federalists to this day.
Duh? You're saying that there is some sort of hybrid "Democratic
Republican" Party? Jefferson's party has a very clear lineage to the
modern Democratic Party (although poor Tom would be aghast at what it
has become.) And, the certainly haven't defeated the Federalists--au
contraire, they have become what they opposed.
John P. Tarver, MS/PE
Ed Rasimus
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