[Augustine23661]

The Founding Fathers (or ‘Founders’, if you prefer) would barely recognize what you see today in Congress. The House was intended to be a citizen legislature in which representatives were close to, and intimately familiar with, the people they represented. The Senate was intended to be an appointed body in which each state’s government would send two of its ‘elder statesmen’ up to Congress. Any legislator in either body might vote their conscience and best judgment, but would ultimately be accountable to those who elected them. We could do a whole lot worse than going back to the unamended Constitution and Bill of Rights (the Reconstruction amendments excepted, because they fixed something that was fundamentally wrong with the original document from the beginning). And no, I don’t think the original Constitution specifically excluded women from voting; therefore an amendment wasn’t necessary.

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Name : Augustine23661, Gender : M, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Catholic, Age : 39, City : Columbia, State : SC, Country : United States, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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