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The ones who most venerate the Founding Fathers are the ones who usually claim that the status quo is good. The status quo can always be attributed as the will of the Fathers.

Sometimes that means using a ouija board to assert that some vague passage happens to mean what they want it to mean.

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It's bold to assert that people make up Founder Father's reasoning when just above you claim we use the current electronic voting because:

> "I think just the fact that it was the first thing on offer that wasn't the thing they were already using."

Instead of just assuming things - aka making things up - you could check.

For the Declaration, Articles, and later the Constitution specifically, much of the Founder Father's reasoning and conclusions were well-documented in public via published letters, essays, and speeches at the time. No ouija board necessary.

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