Most “american” history now taught begins in 1861. It was as if this evil group of states decided to go on their own away from the rest and had to be put under the thumb of an imperial government.
When one mentions things like the “federalist papers” today to most high school grads, you get back the stare as if you were talking in code. These matters of the framing of the constitution are downplayed IMO because they begin with a wonderful precept: we are endowed by a Creator with certain rights which is in direct opposition to the current notion of the state being supreme.
Honor and ethics are also underlying concepts to the Constitution i.e. look at those which deal with the advice and consent arguments: it was felt that an hororable president would be ashamed to nominate a person of bad character. Today in DC, Diogenes would need a super tanker of oil to fuel his lamp while he looked for an honorable person.
So very true. We have a corrupt government for a corrupted people.