Tuesday, October 30, 2012

The Founding Fathers


Dear Founding Fathers,

You are seven of the most important people in the world. All of you helped our country tremendously. The seven of you helped shape our country into what it is today. I appreciate you effort to make our country the best that you though it could be but I disagree with a lot of the choices you made.

The Declaration of Independence states that all men should be treated equal yet Thomas Jefferson owned slaves.  This confuses me because if all men are created equal then all men and woman should be free to make their own choices, no one should be owned by anyone else. This proves that the founding fathers were hypocrites.

We can still see important figures to our country like the founding fathers today  on our currency. For example Abraham Lincoln on the 5 dollar bill and George Washington on the one dollar bill. We honor them because they helped morph our country into what it is today. I know not all of the choices they made were good ones but they did play a big role in creating our country. Without them I don’t even want to imagine where we would be today.

The founding fathers didn’t make all the right decisions but I still honor and respect them for trying. Although I don’t agree with many of their decisions without them we wouldn’t be where we are today. Our country is what it is because of them.

From,
Madison

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