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Here is the YouTube link to the excellent video on the front page. Too few truly understand the great achievement of the founding fathers. Many were self educated and home schooling was quite common. The population was very literate for the time. Here is an example to illustrate literacy then and now:

The federalists and the anti-federalists wrote essays discussing the proposed U.S. Constitution which had been submitted to the states for ratification in 1787:

These articles, now encompassed in books, one aptly titled The Federalist Papers by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay which supported adoption of the new Constitution as it was; and the other, edited by Ralph Ketcham, called The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates, urging caution about the new Constitution and lamenting its lack of a bill of rights, both contain articles which originally appeared in local newspapers in the young states.

Thus, as was pointed out by at least one professor recently when his second-year law students complained that the books were “too hard” for them, these articles were written for the “average farmer” at the time of their first publication.

Though some of the difficulty could be due to differences in language usage, these students were going to be lawyers. If only lawyers wrote today like our founding fathers.

Here is another example showing the difference between then and now.

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