[NathanM]

Good point. However, I do not believe the Founders would have approved of the 14th Amendment, because it is totally contrary to what they believed and wrote.

[edsheppa]

Probably true but irrelevant. They believed in the consent of the governed and, realizing that the opinions of the people about government change in time, the founders were wise enough (the second time around) to make it possible to amend the constitution and thereby change the law of the land - even is ways of which they might disapprove.