Our Founding Fathers

Author's Note: As instructed by Mr. Graf, I wrote an essay with the prompt "If you could go back in time and meet our founding fathers, what would you say?". I'm trying to work on word choise, so please let me know how to improve that in this piece. I tried a little, but it's rather difficult to express that in a piece like this.


Time surrounds us, even traps us. Every so often, people wish they could go back in time and re-do one thing. Others think back and wish they could have been the ones in charge and are able to change it. I would want to go back in time to meet our founding fathers because that would be a truly exceptional experience. If I really could go back in time and talk to our founding fathers, I’d ask them if they would’ve been able to choose what was written in the constitution, what would they have written?


There has to be a reason for everything. So, I have my own reasoning for asking the question “What would you have written in the constitution if it were just for you to decide?” Of course I’d like to know, that’s why I asked the question. Except I just think it’d be interesting to see what they’d respond. Do they like how it is now, and keep it all, would they write the whole thing over, or keep some of it? Well, that’s why I’d like to go back in time and see.


To choose a specific founding father, George Washington would probably be one of the most important ones to ask. Not only he was the first president of the United States, he was asked to be Commander in Chief of the Continental Army during Revolutionary War. Overall, he was a very important man in founding our country. This would make it a once in a lifetime chance to talk to him. Of course it would, because as of right now it’s not possible to go back in time.


I’d ask our Founding Fathers if they’d had the chance to write everything that went into the constitution, what would they write, if only I could go back in time. Others may want to say “good job” or “why didn’t you learn to read and write?”, but surely I wouldn’t. That’s too expected of people to ask/say things like that. In fact, if I really could go back in time to meet them, I’d want to be remembered for asking such a question- wouldn’t you?