The best part about the founding fathers is that they knew that they didn't have a perfect system set up, and that they couldn't predict the future, so they create a government that could change and adapt. That's the whole point of a democracy, the goverment is able to adapt to the needs of the people.
We're kind of unique in this respect. Britain has had a number of violent revolutions over it's history in order to effect change, and France was pretty much in non-stop revolution from the late 1700s until the Belle Epoque. ("Sacre chat! We are not slaughtering ourselves and/or Prussians for once in our lives! Let's get drunk after painting class and fuck!")
Meanwhile, over here, Charles Stross kind of nails us to the wall on the unspoken American undercurrent of hatred for the poor.
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We're kind of unique in this respect. Britain has had a number of violent revolutions over it's history in order to effect change, and France was pretty much in non-stop revolution from the late 1700s until the Belle Epoque. ("Sacre chat! We are not slaughtering ourselves and/or Prussians for once in our lives! Let's get drunk after painting class and fuck!")
Meanwhile, over here, Charles Stross kind of nails us to the wall on the unspoken American undercurrent of hatred for the poor.