Which founders would those be exactly? With the possible exception of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jesfferson, neither or whom had much to do with writing the Constitution, Franklin being marginal and Jefferson being in Paris, The Founders (a fetishized group widely cited but generally unidentified, as is your main fault over and over again here) were a bunch of aristocratic wannabees who wrote a document designed to establish the rule of law and to marginalize the people of the country, especially the small group who constituted the voting population by making sure that the only branch of government that was directly elected by the people were the elected representatives in the House. Madison, who is widely credited with writing the Constitution in it's unamended form, had little regard for the masses or their ability to judge the quality of their leaders or to be trusted to elect them, that is why every other branch of government is appointed in the original document. In fact, with the various property qualifications and other provisions that restricted voting in the early years of the republic few could actually vote. The number of people who voted during the ratification process was less than 10 percent of the population, some have estimated that it was as low as 7 percent. So stop fetishizing your particular twisted version of history and realize that the founders were mostly excessively wealthy slave owners whose sole purpose was protecting their property in slaves and their ability to control the power in the government they were erecting. They weren't the damn saints that most of you teabaggers wish they were and they certainly had no respect for "the people" and Madison himself in his later life admitted that the Federalist Papers which most of you have also erected shrines to were written to sell the Constitution to a skeptical population.
If you want to learn what some people thought during the debate on the Constitution put down the Federalist Papers and pick up a copy of the Anti-Federalist Papers. Then read some history of the Constitution and the men who wrote it.
