Idols of the Kings 0
In the Roanoke Times, John Freivalds takes issue with the deification of the “Founding Fathers” (emphasis added–follow the link for the rest):
And Ulysses Grant declared “it is preposterous that the people of one generation can lay down the best and only rules of government for all who are to come after them.”
Bordewich, writing in the July 5 Wall Street Journal, adds: “Does it really matter if politicians revise the Founding Father story to suit their own ends? .?.?. Opportunistic misuses of the fathers disregards political debate, militates against compromise and disguises lack of thought behind a veil of propaganda.”