How did the Founding Fathers want Americans to behave?

Should the constitution be interpreted as it was understood at ratification in 1788? Just a few decades old, is in vogue on America’s conservative Supreme Court, influencing rulings on abortion, gun rights, environmental regulation and the separation of church and state. A.J. Jacobs, an editor-at-large for magazine, decided to live as the Founding Fathers supposedly wanted Americans to. For a year he would “walk the walk and talk the talk and eat the mutton and read the ”.Mr Jacobs characterises his previous book, “The Year of Living Biblically” (2007), in which he tossed pebbles at an adulterer in Central Park, as by turns “absurd” and “enlightening”. His new book could be described that way, too. He buys muskets, curls up with Benjamin Franklin’sand writes with a goose quill. But his quarter-of-a-millennium time-warp also explores features of the early republic that cast doubt on the self-styled originalism of conservative judges—while highlighting others that 21st-century Americans might want to emulate.