[Aurelius]

"But history can be shocking. In tracing the ancestry of my own convictions, I had to endure the humiliation of learning how many of them weren’t descended from the Founding Fathers at all, but were only Lincoln’s bastards."

[billbears]

And the Framers wouldn’t have agreed that they were “founding a nation.” The nation already existed. They were doing the narrower job of working out a “compact,” as they called it, among the states. A new “federal” government would have no power to impose a single religion on the states, most of which already had their own official religions — all of them versions of Christianity. The primacy or sovereignty of the states was the key principle. That’s what federalism meant.

Exactly. The Tenth Amendment clearly gives the states the rights that have been ignored for so long.

[GOPcapitalist]

I had to endure the humiliation of learning how many of them weren’t descended from the Founding Fathers at all, but were only Lincoln’s bastards.

That's a good way of putting it. Unfortunately there are forces at work in this society who seek to install those bastards on the throne of government despite their preexisting disqualification from birthright. Pretenders to the throne take many forms these days