The Founding Fathers were they Liberal or Conservative?
The Founding Fathers were they Liberal or Conservative?
The Founding Fathers are American icons. They 're on our dollars and coins, they have had monuments and statues built honoring them, and today we live our daily lives in the world their ideas helped create. Our forefathers risked their lives, fortunes and honor to provide us with freedom. Their views were considered to be strong, bold, liberal and radical to the citizens but by today’s standards they would be considered conservative. The Purpose of the U.S. Government is clearly stated in the Constitution and is outlined in the opening preamble of the United States ' constitution; it was the Founding Fathers ' intent to have the federal government performs six fundamental functions. An quote from the U.S. Constitution that best states these purposes reads, "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America". (1) Thomas Jefferson stated clearly, “The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness.” (2) The government exists for the interests of the citizens or the ones they govern over. The purpose of government is to protect the individual rights of its citizens. Government was designed to help the lives of people. Whether it is providing security, creating laws to ensure freedom and justice, or supplying public goods and services, government should be concerned in the good of its people. Since the beginning of civilization, some type of rule has been needed to create, explain, and enforce laws. What exactly did the founding farther believe? The Founders were not divided into specific parties of liberal or conservative, as we know today. They believed that the political
The Founding Fathers are American icons. They 're on our dollars and coins, they have had monuments and statues built honoring them, and today we live our daily lives in the world their ideas helped create. Our forefathers risked their lives, fortunes and honor to provide us with freedom. Their views were considered to be strong, bold, liberal and radical to the citizens but by today’s standards they would be considered conservative. The Purpose of the U.S. Government is clearly stated in the Constitution and is outlined in the opening preamble of the United States ' constitution; it was the Founding Fathers ' intent to have the federal government performs six fundamental functions. An quote from the U.S. Constitution that best states these purposes reads, "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America". (1) Thomas Jefferson stated clearly, “The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness.” (2) The government exists for the interests of the citizens or the ones they govern over. The purpose of government is to protect the individual rights of its citizens. Government was designed to help the lives of people. Whether it is providing security, creating laws to ensure freedom and justice, or supplying public goods and services, government should be concerned in the good of its people. Since the beginning of civilization, some type of rule has been needed to create, explain, and enforce laws. What exactly did the founding farther believe? The Founders were not divided into specific parties of liberal or conservative, as we know today. They believed that the political
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