Dear Founding Fathers...

If I could go back and tell the founding fathers something, what would it be? Would you say great job! I wouldn't change a bit, or would you scold them for not thinking ahead. Did you really expect to make it there with no problems? If you could go back in time, to when the colony’s were still being established, what would you tell them?

One thing I would ask our founding fathers would be to ask them if they expected to survive with no doctors, barely enough food, and little knowledge on how to find your own food? Almost half of the colonists died from natural causes such as sickness or too little food. When people got sick, there were no medicines and very few doctors to treat them so they just died. How did you plan on surviving is my question.

While not being prepared was a big problem, I think slavery is a bigger problem. Wasn’t the whole point of the “new country” to have been freedom? If so, then why did you wait 100 years before you abolished slavery? Many slaves died from harsh treatment from their “owners”. I don’t know what freedom means to them, but to me it means not having someone own you. I feel like that was not the smartest idea to keep slavery.

While some things were really bad, there many things that you did mostly right. Like creating voting rights. This way when you created laws, everyone got to share their opinion. This way the United States of America created their government. I think you did an astounding job of it and it is still more or less the same.  One thing you could have changed was having women’s rights but I wouldn’t put yourself down on that one because it was shortly resolved.

All in all I think you did a pretty great job of founding our country and I realize that everything isn’t going to be perfect and you coped way better than anyone else would have done while under all that stress. I look up to you for doing what you did because I know that I wouldn’t be able to start even a business with all  of the courage or insightfulness that you had and may you rest in peace.