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It is correct, and you don't know what my "view" is. See, that's what you get for assuming. You don't know, because I haven't told you. You've only gotten hints, and just as with the Founding Fathers, it's dangerous to take hints and guesses and pass them off as facts. The Constitution, while not designed to be an "open" document, as you say, at the same time is not like the laws of the Medes and Persians, either. The Constitution is silent on many points. And if you bring up the 10th Amendment, as you inevitably will, you have a very different interpretation of it than I (and most every Supreme Court Justice there has ever been) do, which is probably the biggest bone of contention.

The philosphy of the Founding Fathers was by no means complete and all-encompassing. They were influenced by a number of different philosophies--Humanism & Deism among them. The Constitution may have been inspired by philosophies, but we are governed according to the Constitution...not by any one "named" or "defined" philosophy. The Constitution, in other words, is not the Word of God. It is the word of men, laying out a system of government which has never been improved upon.

Which brings us to another difference. You seem to treat the Founding Fathers as if they were prophets and this "philosophy" (of which there never was just one) as a religion. You read the Constitution the same way Pentacostals read the Bible. They were men, not deities, very human, fallible men, who, in my personal opinion, would be shocked at the people who today revere them to the point of religious worship. They were Great Men, but not objects of worship. You genuflect and make burnt offerings before them; they may dictate to you, but they only influence me. And like the Good Fathers of this country that they were, they raised us up right, gave us a good guidebook by which to govern, and sent us on our way. The rest is up to us.

Keep in mind, as I said before, the Constitution itself has given us a way to resolve these differences.