A New Look at America´s Creation and the Founde Fathers

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a mans character, give him power (Lincoln). When young, it is taught that the Founding Fathers worked tirelessly to free our country from the British. Later it is learned that history is not so straight forward and that human flaw plays a central role when it comes to the themes of history. Not everything that occurs in history is an accident nor is it as honest as it would be liked. So when Howard Zinn asserts that, â€Å"Around 1776, certain important people in the English colonies made a discovery that would prove enormously useful for the next two hundred years. They found that by creating a nation, a symbol, a legal unity called the United States, they could take over land,†¦show more content†¦To that point, even poor, small or non land owning white males could not participate in the government.() As Thomas Hutchins points out it would have almost been easier to write a declaration of war. Hutchins wrote a re buttal to almost every anti-British statement that was in the Declaration, and by doing so he outlines the hypocrisies and lies that exist within not only the text, the Founding Fathers and their true goals. His ability to do so proves the document was not for the proclamation of freedom, but a rallying cry, and an exhibition of upper class colonist goals. The Founders cared an enormous amount about property and taxes on businesses and trade.They cared about making the nation larger, more expansive, and more promoting to businesses, specifically theirs.() So with this self-interest in mind they were willing to focus the documents that founded and still found the country today on those ideals. Possibly knowing they would not get the general consensus in their direction the Framers did not even put the Constitution, and its Amendments to a vote. As an author, Stanley Weintraub highlights the Founders did not need to break apart from Britain, taxes were lower in the colonies, the taxe s were lightly monitored and collected, and there was no need for much anti-British sentiment, especially since they had almost full autonomy until the French Indian War. He goes on to say that the Founders had