Examples Of Founding Fathers

How would The Founding Fathers Deal with Three Modern Issues Facing America?
The Founding Fathers had all different kinds of political views. For example, there was Thomas Jefferson and he believed that central power should be controlled, restrained, and restricted (“Founding” para. 5). Thomas Jefferson was against homosexual marriage, abortion, and cruel and unusual punishment. Another Founding Father was Patrick Henry and he believed that the government should not be able to control a life of an individual (“Founding” para. 10). George Mason was also a Founding Father that agreed with Patrick Henrys political views (“Torture” para. 10). Both George Mason and Patrick Henry were against cruel and unusual punishment. All of the Founding Fathers

Some defend themselves with the Ninth Amendment because everyone has powers reserved to them, so a woman should be able to do whatever the woman wants to do with her body. Others fight against abortion with the Fourteenth Amendment because everyone has equal rights, and since the baby is said to be alive the baby has rights too. Thomas Jefferson believed in individual rights as well as equal rights for every American (Brown para. 1). Jefferson did not think that destroying someone’s rights was acceptable because everyone is equal (Brown para. 5). If Jefferson did not view everyone as equal then the weak, the baby, could have its right taken away easily (Brown para. 7). Jefferson once said “The first duty of government is the protection of life, not its destruction. The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all” (Brown para. 14). The baby is a person; therefore, the mother is technically destroying the baby’s rights. Thomas Jefferson believed that no one should be able to break someone else’s rights (Brown para. 5). Jefferson today might have even went against Obama Care because Obama Care pays for abortions and abortion pills and Jefferson would find that not only sinful but unlawful as well (Brown para. 11). Jefferson would obviously be on the Pro-Life side because when someone is Pro-Life they believe a mother and the unborn child have equal rights (Brown para. 5).

4). Thomas Jefferson was not ok with that happening; Jefferson did not like the idea of torturing someone at all (Cole para. 5). All of the Founding Fathers, like George Mason and Patrick Henry, passed the Bill of Rights so that torturing an individual would be abolished (Cole para. 13). In the U.S. Constitution there is the Eighth Amendment. The Eighth Amendment means no excessive bail, and no cruel of unusual punishment. The Eighth Amendment is supposed to ban post-sentencing torture (Cole para. 9). At Guantanamo Bay, which is a military base on American soil, the Eighth Amendment does not apply. One way they torture people is by depriving them of sleep. The torturers deprive them of sleep because sleep deprivation reduces the individual’s resistance of pain (“Torture” para. 4). Another way Guantanamo Bay tortures its people is by having the person watch someone else be tortured. It is said to have the same mental effects of actually being tortured (“Torture” para. 16). Now George Mason and Patrick Henry made sure that they made a Bill of Rights because they hated the idea of torture. It is quite obvious the Founding Fathers were against the idea of torture (Cole para. 15). They would be quite furious with Guantanamo Bay because they are breaking the U.S. Constitution because everyone has to follow the Constitution and Guantanamo Bay