Posted by Tina
The fully degraded state of education about our founding and the Constitution was on full display recently when a G-12 Park service employee led a tour through Independence Hall in Philadelphia. Reportedly, many in the tour were shocked by some of the things this tour guide had to say:
A federal employee of the National Park Service who offers guided tours of Independence Hall in Philadelphia — the birthplace of the Constitution — stunned a group of tourists this week by telling them the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence were the product of “class elites who were just out to protect their privileged status.”
Mary A. Hogan, a federal employee making in excess of $95,000 per year in salary and benefits, provided a tour Monday afternoon at Independence Hall laced with factual inaccuracies and disparaging comments about the Founders and the Constitution. …
…”It is astounding how many times the first draft of that Constitution protected slavery,” Hogan told her tour group Tuesday afternoon.
The text of the Constitution in 1787 did not mention slavery even once.
This woman’s LinkedIn page indicates she is the “chief of operations” at the National Park Service in Philadelphia. It has to be assumed that the attitudes and opinions she has are encouraged in the employees who serve under her. This is disgraceful. Tour guides should be representing our nation with factual information and one would hope, a sense of pride.
A product of the left-wing liberal run K-12. Thank you Chris et. al. Some day you will pay, you scum.
Have a nice day, Pie!
Heil Chris! The Goebbels wannabe of K-12.
Well there is some truth to that. In fact the founding fathers were not all in agreement. They were a diverse crowd. They are not gods but men. Men who gave us the birth of this country. There the elite and slave owner among them. In the end this Oligarchy we have ruling us now is not what they envisioned as a group.
The Founders did not confuse Boston’s Sons of Liberty with the British East India Company. They could distinguish among different varieties of association — and they understood that corporate personhood was a legal fiction that was limited to a courtroom. It wasn’t literal. Corporations could not vote or hold office. They held property, and to enable a shifting group of shareholders to hold that property over time and to sue and be sued in court, they were granted this fictive personhood in a limited legal context.
So even as this generation of Americans became comfortable with the idea of using the corporate form as a way to set priorities and mobilize capital, they did their best to make sure that those institutions were subordinate to elected officials and representative government. They saw corporations as corrupting influences on both the economy at large and on government — that’s why they described the East India Company as imperium in imperio, a sort of “state within a state.” This wasn’t an outcome they were looking to replicate.
https://hbr.org/2010/04/what-the-founding-fathers-real.html
The professor you quote made a lot of good points. The one point he did not make when comparing corporations to schools had to do with campaign donations. He pointed out that corporations were not people and should not be allowed to donate to campaigns looking past the fact that schools are also not people and yet schools donate in the same way corporations donate, through the people and the union associated with the school system. His evaluation is inaccurate in my estimation.
The founders put individuals at the core of the founding: WE THE PEOPLE…
They constructed a constitution of individual rights:
Whether we organize as corporations, unions, associations, nonprofits or any other type of group it is always the individual person, or group of persons, that donates. Some people have more to give than others…it has always been so and it always will be so..that’s life Dewey, get over it.