Pacifier

understanding the past is certanly a very good thing, but over glorification is a bad thing. And personally I got the feeling that a lot of people see the founding fathers as too glorious people (same as a lot americans seem to have a nationalistic, overly glorious view of their nation, but thats another topic). This kind of view prevents to see the errors those people made.
They were smart (the pharse "we the people" alone is great, at that time most european nation still had some sort of "gods will" in their laws and constitutions...) but they surely made errors, noone is perfect

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"It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere. Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death
— Albert Einstein