[PapaBear3625]

The founding fathers of American got many of their ideas from the French revolution and understood that wisdom was not hereditary.

You have it backwards. The US Constitution was written on September 17, 1787 and ratified on June 21, 1788. The storming of the Bastille did not occur until 1789. It was the French who were (badly) trying to copy the ideas of the US Revolution.

[Sawdring]

You are correct.