And yet, as compromised as the Founders were, they didn't lock us into their own misconceptions and miseries, but rather gave us a governing document - the Constitution - that itself provided us with the means to overcome the Founders' own historical limitations. In other words, though the Founders were men of their own times, and limited accordingly, the Constitution they gifted us with is not - it transcends the time in which it was written and the limitations of the people who wrote it, which is a substantial contribution in a world where so many are dedicated to trapping everyone else in the prison of their own impoverished imaginations. The Founders set us free, notwithstanding their own limited imaginations - liberals would confine us forever to the dank recesses of their own limited, impoverished imaginations.
