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You took a paragraph that was about the Constitutional Convention and used it for - not the Constitutional Convention by lifting out one single sentence for whatever your ill-gotten purposes. All you're doing is trolling.

It's called precision.

A successful revolution is not "leaving society as it is" by any stretch of the imagination, and no one will take you seriously if you maintain such.

Saying the Founders were not keen on social engineering, on the other hand, is certainly more accurate.

The question that naturally follows, however, is this: do you believe that the abolition of slavery within the American continent would have counted as "social engineering" in the sense you give it? Given all of the digital ink you've spilled on trying to highlight the abolitionist fervor of the Founders, most looking from the outside in would find it odd that it wasn't outlawed outright when they were, as you said, forming the government.

(Some might consider quite logically that they preferred keeping all of the newly-independent colonies united on the outset, given the tensions with foreign powers both in Europe and the Indian tribes still extant, even if meant granting concessions to the colonies which weren't so keen on giving up their slaves. But that would run counter to the whole "abolition uber alles" thing you're insisting on, wouldn't it? You might have to concede that all of the Founders weren't of one mind on the matter of slavery or race relations, because what in the world would happen if we had to actually have nuance with our messy history?)