What an A-hole. At the time they created our constitution, every other nation on earth except Switzerland was ruled by a monarch, ruling by divine right,, or a tribal leader. Any leader, anywhere on earth could have you executed at will. The idea of the people being the just repository of all power, and that the rights of the individual came first was unknown in 1776.
What the founders did was so revolutionary that it is lost on uneducated types like the one who said this.
It is mind bending to look at what they did and find the few minor imperfections. Imprefections for which they laid the groundwork for fixing.
The jackass should be ashamed.
Holland was also a republic.
Any leader, anywhere on earth could have you executed at will. The idea of the people being the just repository of all power, and that the rights of the individual came first was unknown in 1776.
This is garbage. The American Revolution was a reaffirmation of English rights that that the American colonists perceived were being ridden roughshod over by George III. American liberty was an inherited concept, not an original one...