Yeah, there are certainly a lot of things that could be put into the category.
I also thought about this after posting, “I bet someone will bring up the Federalist Papers”. If anything of the Founding pierces the “classics veil”(I made that up) it would be the Federalist. The other is probably Common Sense. But I can’t think of any time where any of the other’s writings were considered classic and there’s a huge body of work that is always just constantly disregarded and thrown away.
by any standard, the Federalist Papers are a tour de force....
it probably is true that other than the few we have mentioned why the Founders don’t have a lot of “classics”.....I have actually thought about this a lot, and I stated the question a little bit differently, but fundamentally the same.
You could say, why didn’t the founders turn out a lot of poetry (or art, or music...)?
I think the answer is, their lives were their poetry.
They left nothing on the table. They were completely, all in, and it’s a wonder to behold.
And their bringing our polis into existence allows the American polis to flourish, which allows Moby Dick to come into being.....
All subsequent art/music/poetry rests on the foundation that the Founders gave us.
Their achievement was complete. They were that great.