This was a fun article on Alexander Hamilton. It's important to remember that while the Founding Fathers were fairly impressive, they were still only human. A lot of them did things that would get a politician fired today (at least).
But of course, that's part of the brilliance of their work: they recognized their failings and those of others, and created a system of governance of the people, by the people, which mitigates the flaws of all of us. They also realized that what was acceptable to them might not be acceptable to us, and incorporated mechanisms to deal with changes in accepted practice, so that our system could carry on, despite all the bumps in the road. And now, we're just the latest incarnation of an enduring vision; not of a perfect union, but hopefully a more perfect one.
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