Were the founding fathers' intentions to have a country in which the government had complete control?

Question

over the people in which it serves?

Is the USA the country that the founding father intended it to be?

Answer 1

Founding fathers made sure that they expressed their desire unequivocally that the freedom, liberty and pursuit of happiness of people as the most important aspects of humanity.  In fact they were so concerned that they divided the authority into three pieces.  After all that, still no utopia?  How can we be rational as a humanity?

Answer 2

On the contrary, the constitution was meant to protect us from an over bearing govt.

Which is why Stevens dissenting opinion on the recent second amendment decision is so disturbing.  He said the founding fathers never intended the govt hands be tied in regulating its citizens.

Answer 3

No.not one bit.

THe Bush administration has continuously abused its power and is still doing so today, while trying to destroy the constitution and its people.  I doubt people will realize the total damage after it is too late.  Its the exact reason I will not vote for McCain. We can not afford it.  Respect for being a pow for Mccain is the only  reason to respect him,nothing more  to this day.

We need to take our country back .  The enemy is not living over seas!!!  

They totally understood why people needed protection against the government.  It is the only way to keep it a free country, not one that it  is beooming today.  The problem is when people dont know or understand their rights or government they don t know when it is being violated.

Answer 4

The fathers never intended the government to have a lot of control. They preferred to have greater control in the states, and less in the federal government. However, it has been proven that one large power is better than dealing with many smaller powers. The federal government is necessary to maintain an equilibrium. If the states had more power, as the fathers originally intended, the United States would actually be more like 50 different countries, each with its own laws, and little uniformity. You would also need to convert your currency if you went out of state since each state would mint its own currency.

It was an interesting idea, and worked better when there were only 13 states, but today it is ridiculous to think that their plan could still work today.

Answer 5

Absolutely not to both questions.

Answer 6

If we went with what the Founding Fathers had wanted, we would be the same dinky little country we were when they were in charge.  

They wanted us out of all foreign affairs altogether.  ALL OF THEM.

Because of this, if we had held to what they wanted, we would not have been in Asia back in the 1920s and 30s for trade.  Japan would not have seen us as a threat, and they never would have attacked us at Pearl Harbor.  Roosevelt would not have his excuse for entering World War II; and since most Americans were against entering the war until Pearl Harbor occurred, we would have stayed out of it completely.

Then we would not have a reason to get the Atom Bomb, which is how we attained our power.  It was the arms race with the Soviet Union afterwards that propelled us to the top both militarily and economically.  

So we would have a worthless military, and our economy would not even be close to number 1.  I doubt we'd be in the top 10.  All because we wouldn't step into anyone else's business.  We never would have been courted as an ally for Israel when they became Democratic, and so the Middle East would not be a concern for us.  They wouldn't attack us because we wouldn't be supporting Israel.

So its really your choice, do you want the Republicans and Democrats controlling you so that you can have the best things in the world, protected by the best military in the world; or would you rather have had no say in anything whatsoever?  We'd be another France or Sweden, we'd be THAT lame.

Answer 7

no those were not the intentions.

they wanted laissez faire to exist to an extent

there are places where the USA has developed so much that the founding fathers would be astonished but there are also problems we have run into that wouldnt have been expected

Answer 8

No.  The founding father's meant for the people and/or the states to have more  control with little federal government intervention.

Answer 9

They wanted a government," Of the people, By the people and For the people". They never stated which people that is supposed to be, so we are still not sure today.

Answer 10

No.  But the world we live iin is not the world that the founding fathers lived in.