In 1787 I’m told our founding fathers did agree to write a list of principles for keeping people free. The U.S.A. was just starting out, a whole brand new country, and so our people spelled it out; the things that we should be. …And they put those principles down on paper and called it the Constitution, and it’s been helping us run our country ever since then. The first part of the Constitution is called the preamble and tells what those founding fathers set out to do.

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.

I think the founding fathers couldn’t even conceive of what they were creating. The archetypes of their ideals were too big for them to understand the totality of. Here we are in a country full of voters, many of whom do not own property, are not white and are not male. I’m pretty sure the founding fathers never would have been able to imagine their ideals would lead us here but here we are, a more prefect embodiment of those ideals than the country we started with. Hopefully each generation takes a step closer to realizing those ideals. Hopefully.