The Influence Of The Founding Fathers

Ellis argues that modern day American’s take their freedom for granted, and act like there was never another possible outcome. He compares the founding fathers as actors in a play, with their lines written by God, and that there was no doubt the good guys would win to prove this point. While in reality, many soon to be Americans had either absolutely no idea they would win, or only hope to satisfy a gnawing feeling of doom in their gut.
If they failed, they would be hunted down, tried, and executed for treason. There was also the lasting effect “Whig Principles” had on how many British-American’s viewed things. However, there were some that viewed America has a land of great economic and social opportunity to set a new path in the world. They viewed America as a land of liberty, and freedom from
Their ideas of liberty, freedom, and the pursuit of knowledge and happiness are even fought and debated about today. A prime example would be the constitution itself. To this day, many people argue about what the Constitution means and if it should be taken as literal or as ambiguous guidelines; and of course we’ll be arguing about it today when the founding fathers themselves argued about what it should mean. There’s a reason why the Federalists and the anti-federalists were at each other's throats, debating about how the Constitution should be followed. Another example of the founding fathers fighting over the same thing modern day Americans are fighting over would be the “true meaning” of the revolution. Many say it was a spark of freedom that erupted into a country, and others say it was to escape a tyrannical king, while some think it just boiled down to simple economics and that being independent from the British would be far more profitable. These very arguments about the revolution are still being debated today by the varying political