[BikerNYC]

They did not count on the spite and bile that would erupt later, spit in the faces of these assumptions, and use the very mechanisms of the Constitution to pee on the sort of nation that the Constitution was intended to produce.

Indeed, "later" being 10 years after the ratification of the Constitution, when Congress passed and President Adams signed the Sedition Act of 1798. It didn't take long.

[highball]

You're right - it didn't take long at all for our government to betray the principles our nation was founded upon.

That's why we must constantly defend our liberty.