Of course, the less palatable, more radical Fathers of the United States are not included, even though some had a greater role than some that actually signed the documents. Two who come to mind are Samuel Adams and Tom Paine, the author of "Common Sense" the pamphlet that sold more copies in its time than the Bible.

You were blessed with brilliant FF but their brilliance was for their time now seem to be a burden against progress in a modern world!

A bright new country that carried little baggage is now obsess with what the FFs thought. Their great solutions for their time cannot be the solutions for the future. The beacon for liberty in the world is now despotic? The old leader for democracy, is now fascist. The WW2 army of liberation, is now an army of death and destruction. God loving Americans are now retributionist.

(sorry grandchild crying)

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