Founding Fathers: What did they really want for America?

Founding Fathers: What did they really want for America? What did the Founding Fathers want for America?

If more Americans pondered this simple question they would have a more clear understanding of why those brave men who came before us risked their blood, treasure and sacred honor to create the greatest nation on Earth. The Founding Fathers were a revolutionary group, diverse in their professions and yet unified in their goal: American liberty. They understood that the citizens should have a say in their government and that the government only derives its legitimate power from the consent of the governed. When Thomas Jefferson penned those timeless, eloquent words of freedom in the Declaration of Independence it sent political shock waves around the world that continue to reverberate in the minds of revolutionaries everywhere. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." A challenge was issued that kings did not automatically have supreme authority. Rights come from Nature's God and it was time for men to rise up to secure these rights at any cost because it was the right thing to do. http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/fdrthefourfreedoms.htm http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/freedom-of-expression-online-how-far-should-it-go/6126 http://www.humanrightsactioncenter.org/dyr/ Men sleep peacefully in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."