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Mr. Wolf asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 1 decade ago

If the framers of the Constitution thought it was an imperfect document why do right-wingers criticize anybody?

who thinks that now?

"Happy for us that when we find our constitution defective and insufficient to secure the happiness of our people, we can assemble with all the coolness of philosophers and set it to rights, while every other nation on earth must have recourse to arms to amend or to restore their constitutions." --Thomas Jefferson to C. W. F. Dumas, 1787. ME 6:295, Papers 12:113

"I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they are contended for, are not only unnecessary in the proposed Constitution, but would even be dangerous. They would contain various exceptions to powers not granted; and on this very account, would afford a colorable pretext to claim more than were granted. For why declare that things shall not be done which there is no power to do?" Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 84, 1788

“I confess that there are several parts of this Constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them. For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise.” Benjamin Franklin, 1787

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Not imperfect in its intention -- imperfect in its restriction.

    Rascals will always try to circumvent restrictions on their ambition.

    "I see, and with the deepest affliction, the rapid strides with which the federal branch of our government is advancing towards the usurpation of all the rights reserved to the States, and the consolidation in itself of all powers, foreign and domestic; and that, too, by constructions which, if legitimate, leave no limits to their power. It is but too evident that the three ruling branches of the Federal government are in combination to strip their colleagues, the State authorities, of the powers reserved by them, and to exercise themselves all functions foreign and domestic." --Thomas Jefferson to William Branch Giles, 1825

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  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    It's a contract between the pre-existing states and the new federal government given new federalist powers in 1787. It cannot be changed without permission of the states and no one, not even the Supreme Court, has the right to "reinterpret" it. It is modified only by permission of three quarters of the states since they are the other party in the contract. The Bill of Rights was demanded by anti-Federalist farmers and tradesmen who didn't trust Hamilton's Federalist Party dominated by bankers and merchants. That codicil guaranteed citizens rights. It included their right to military arms for fighting with or against the formal militia the Federalists wanted to protect their businesses from rebellions like Shays was against Massachusetts banks. PS: The slave owners wanted their slaves to count fully in the census but Northern Federalist English descendants didn't want that because the southern Scots-Irish would dominate congress then. More freemen were in the North and the Federalist commercial interests would dominate if they weren't counted. Even at a 3/5 count the Federalists initially dominated until 1800 when the Democratic-Republican (now called just Democrat) farmers and tradesmen took control. They kept it until the Civil War took it from them and gave it back to the bankers and merchants in the newly formed Republican Party.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    You're misinterpreting the meaning of what was said.... Compromises had to be made to ensure ratification of the constitution because the anti-federalists wanted an explicit bill of rights. The federalists insisted that all rights were already guaranteed by the stand-alone document. Naturally, you're not expecting that anybody here knows that.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    It's compromise. You give and you take. You may not agree with everything in there (hence the term imperfect in respect to that person's opinion), but as a whole it works to appease the majority of people on both sides of ideological beliefs.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    we are critical of left wingers who try to take away rights in the consititution or add rights at the expense of other rights, in other words LIBERALS are L00NY!

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Do you know anything about American history?

    The Constitution is to be amended when changes need to be made NOT discarded!

  • 1 decade ago

    we only criticize people who think that each and every part is imperfect

  • 1 decade ago

    Because they think that we violate it when we... uh.... uh.... IDK, but they do it themselves when they try to make religious laws and vote against gay rights, etc...

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Then change it, not violate it.

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