Essay On Founding Fathers

The founding fathers were a various and different group of men, but united in one cause; freedom for America and its people. We are nation created to abolish a tyrannical government. So the people could be independent and have the freedom we were born with. “ The God who gave us life also gave us liberty (Meacham, 2007)”. We were born free but the older we get the less freedom we have, but why are our god-given rights being limited. Are we as free as our founding fathers had hoped us to be? No, since the era of our founders our government has become more corrupt and has been instituting new laws restricting our god-given rights. Our founders would be rolling in their graves and weeping in sorrow if they saw what became of their country they sacrificed everything for. The founders believed in the freedom of its people that they almost anything, as long as they did not harm others. We call that individual liberty. Laws have changed since our founders, then laws were mainly about the rights of life, liberty, and property of its citizens. A citizen who violates these rights would be punished. Such as killing, raping, and stealing. And there should be laws and consequences against these crimes. Now our laws are telling us what we can and cannot do, even if it …show more content…
We as Americans are limited in so many ways by our government, but in the beginning it was our government who was limited by us. Our founding fathers created documents like Declaration of Independence, and The Constitution to protect the citizens of America. Also, they wrote those documents to show what the government does and doesn’t have. Again overtime the government begins to stretch their power and limit our rights. Politicians today are progressively changing and transforming America, making it unrecognizable to even our founding