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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CoinOKC, post: 40404, member: 2146&quot;]I&#039;m happy you agree, Ed.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Why not teach about all the good things they did, but also inform our children of the facts?&nbsp; Let&#039;s not repeat the mistakes of our fathers and let us not hide the truth.&nbsp; I think Thomas Jefferson&#039;s Declaration of Independence was one of the most magnificently inspired documents from the &quot;mind of man&quot;.&nbsp; However, his ownership of slaves was despicable.&nbsp; Should we deify this man, place him on a pedestal and glorify him?&nbsp; The answer is &quot;no&quot;.&nbsp; Should we respect the man for fostering a revolution against tyranny, for his brilliance in the principle of Human Rights, for his accomplishments as an inventor and for his willingness to form a democracy at the peril of his own life?&nbsp; The answer is a resounding &quot;yes&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I think you misunderstand.&nbsp; The point that I was trying to make was that our Founding Fathers knew they weren&#039;t perfect.&nbsp; They reserved &quot;perfection&quot; to a supreme being.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The framers of the Constitution understood that they could not foresee inevitable changes in our country.&nbsp; Therefore, they allowed for change in the very constitution they so bitterly fought over.&nbsp; That&#039;s one of the reasons that I believe the Constitution is so tremendous - it&#039;s flexible, by nature.</p><p><br /></p><p>Had the framers wanted no person (living or dead) to appear on coinage, they would have placed such wording in the Constitution.&nbsp; I think they would rather see a debate as to whether a person (living or dead) should appear on coinage.&nbsp; Isn&#039;t political discourse the American Way?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Had the Constitution been based on the principle of slavery, then you may have a point.&nbsp; Since it wasn&#039;t, the point is groundless.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not &quot;razzled&quot; as you so eloquently put it.&nbsp; &quot;Dazzled&quot; perhaps, but not &quot;razzled&quot;...&nbsp;&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I never said they were &quot;evil&quot;.&nbsp; Please don&#039;t put words in my mouth.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I never said their writings and historical contributions should all be taken with a &quot;grain of salt&quot;.&nbsp; Quite to the contrary, I believe our Founding Fathers were extremely brilliant and I wish their &quot;historical contributions&quot; could be echoed by many of the world&#039;s leaders today.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>When did they decide that no person (living or dead) should grace our coins?&nbsp; Did they express that in the Constitution?&nbsp; Or did they simply voice their opinion?&nbsp; If they voiced their opinion, then I applaud their freedom to do so (thank you, First Amendment).&nbsp; If it&#039;s in the Constitution, I must have missed it.&nbsp; Founding Father or not, their opinion is worth no more than yours or mine.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Well, this particular group of slave owners gave us a form of government unparalleled in the history of mankind.&nbsp; And with their brilliant foresight, they gave us the power to abolish slavery.&nbsp; For that simple fact alone, I think it&#039;s enough that we recognize them on our coinage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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