[Dilbert San Diego]

Some people will never be satisfied, that we have abolished slavery, and worked so hard to eliminate discrimination.

[sima_yi]

Liberals are ashamed because the Founders didn't get everything exactly right the first time around?

In actuality, what they came up with was a sea change, and the best that could have been accomplished given the times and the circumstances.

[Ohioan]

The writer is confused. The American Revolution was about Liberty & self Government. It was the Leftist Jacobin Revolution in France that sought to couple equality with liberty, which is an oxymoron, easily debunked.

Declaration Of Independence--With Study Guide.

It would also be instructive to consider the Northwest Ordinance, as an indicator of the mindset of the Founders on Egalitarianism.

[DiogenesLamp]

I guess people don't understand that one of the grievances listed in the Declaration of independence was that the British were inciting slave revolts.

No, the founders didn't give a crap about freeing slaves or "civil rights". They were concerned with getting independence from England, and that is all they were concerned with.

[Pelham]

Another Townhall joker hastens the decline of conservative scholarship because he really wants it to be Lyndon Johnson liberalism.

Unlike this Scott Rasmussen, Russell Kirk wrote knowledgeably about the American Revolution.

Kirk called it a “conservative revolution” because the American colonials were seeking to defend their historic rights as Englishmen at a time when King George’s government wasn’t respecting them.

They weren’t social progressives looking to create an improved society. They were defending what they had.

They had been demanding representation in Parliament, and if they couldn’t get that from London they would announce their independence and fight a war of rebellion to get it.