I'm sure you're trying to poke holes in my comment, but you have to try harder. The Fox News set has a religion-like obsession with the Founding Fathers irrespective of actual history. See for example, Michele Bachmann's impassioned speeches about how hard they tried to end slavery. My point is that they are human beings who forged a human enterprise. And, while the US is a great experiment in government, there is no reason to think that people are any different now than they were a couple centuries ago. Engaging with the "ideas" of a man like Stossel is a silly thing to attempt, because they're not honest to begin with; they're propaganda for the expressed purposes of electing a specific set of representatives who will do their best to make his bosses and their advertisers a lot of money.