Miracle of '76 (and a few years after)

The more one looks with frustration on the madness that is Washington politics (or maybe its just any type of politics) the lack of true deep intelligence (or maybe its just that the intelligence is drowned by the sound of special interest depositions) Looking back at the founding fathers their wisdom and the immortal document they created are truly master works. The amazing thing is the foresight, for example this quote:
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs." - Thomas Jefferson

you could say they told us so, almost 250 years earlier. Maybe instead of looking ahead we should be looking to the past for advice.