Are you for fucking real? Our founding fathers also meant for it to be a country where it was fine for black people to be owned by white people. Our founding fathers also meant for it to be a country where it was fine for white people to commit genocide of red people.
I don't much give a shit what our founding fathers meant for the country to be. The primary reason why the Constitution is so fucked up is because we spend the majority of the time arguing over the "intentions" of the slave owning founders in the days before there were computers that could be hacked, and before there were gas operated automatic weapons.
Agreed. The "intent of the founders" thing is very subjective, and it's been deconstructed for so long that we no longer know what the hell they had in mind beyond a written constitution with a federal-republic government precluding hereditary or religious titles of nobility. If I remember my history correctly, even that was Plan B, after Plan A (Articles of Confederation) failed miserably. By this point, we might as well be trying to understand the intent of Jesus.