Reply #66: You may be right

[Pithlet]

about your numbers in part, but I think it is irrelevant to the discussion, in fact. The fact that of millions indigenous people were already gone when the papers were signed doesn't bolster the argument that their societies had little or no influence whatsoever on what our country has become, or whether or not any of the Founding Fathers would have learned anything from them, even if they would never give them credit. Millions still remained at that time period, at any rate, so I think you're wrong in more ways than one.

The nation's birth and evolution to the country it is today actually took longer than a few days. It started long before the founding fathers' actions, and continued long after that. Women and minorities may have been horribly disenfranchised in history, but that doesn't mean we had nothing to do with the principles this country was founded on, or contributed in any way to what it has become.