A Meditation on Founding

Also cross-posted on my wit's end.

Abigail was prescient:
“Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could.”

They did not use their best efforts
To protect the rights of everyone,
Not with the same zeal they protected their own. 

They never meant to create a self-ruled country for all,
Only for themselves and those like them. 

They excluded a majority of the population from their ima…