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The Founders: "Look, you guys were supposed to keep improving on it more than you did."
Also the Founders: " Oh God is that a woman voting? Is that a black person who has rights? What are those filthy Irish people are doing everywhere? This government was only supposed to be for wealthy white landowning Anglo-Saxon Protestants."
Boston Tea Party: This isn't what we meant with "spill the tea" !
Except they knew times would change, and so would those things in the public eye, so the document they wrote had to be malleable as well. If you think about it, while a lot of society has improved in respect to those topics, there's still people who think that way, and we haven't come as far as we should have in this time. So let's not get too high and mighty because again, we could have been a lot further along by now.
Keep in mind that future us will be doing the same thing, looking back at what we're doing or not doing and wondering, wtf was their problem?
"We got the things about guns in there, what else do we need?"