Whether Or Not It Is A Good Foundation Is A Matter Of Indoctrination And Morality.
Good foundation? Our ancestors committed massive atrocities against Indigenous peoples. Then there was the Royal Proclamation of 1763, reserving everything west of the Appalachian Mountains for Indigenous nations, which sent colonists into an uproar. Then came the Tea Act and the Townshend Acts, ostensibly to crack down on smuggling but really to raise revenue and assert parliamentary authority. The Somerset v. Stewart ruling freed a slave because chattel slavery was unsupported by English common law, sparking a planter backlash. The Gaspee Affair, the Grand Ohio Company grift, and the Stamp Act (opposed and heavily driven by the financial self-interest of wealthy elites, land speculators, and merchants who instigated mob violence partly to protect their own pockets) all followed. If any of this is a good foundation, then America was really founded by a lumpen criminal underclass and vagrant elements who sought money and power, and by scofflaw rich elites, a.k.a. the bourgeoisie and pe...
