Early American Government

 The American Revolution is probably one of the most romanticized bits of history ever and unjustly so. Some parts of it were spectacular for example the fact that a group of more or less farmers could tackle the largest superpower of the day was phenomenal. But the part that that was most overblown was the reasons behind it and the results of it. People said they wanted to be free from the kings rule they called him a tyrant and rightfully so. But was what the "patriots" suggesting any better at all? They created a government in which the immoral hierarchy of powers still existed and while on paper it protected the right of the individual in practice it failed completely because it maintained the system in which rights could be abused. In fact it only took us to the second president before we began to see the failures of the colonist's plan. John Adams' Alien in Sedition Acts had effectively violated the rights given to them by the constitution. We were violating the rights of citizens before the ink even had dried on that document. You can try to change the nature of the beast as much as you want but the beast is a beast by nature. Government by its very nature enforces unjust power over a group of people. It is insane keep using the same system over and over again and to expect a different result.