What did the Founders mean...

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10. US history is rife with examples of our leaders' mistakes and even crimes

However, the fact that some of the founders made many mistakes does not serve to show that the second amendment was an error or that the founding documents were in some way unsound.

I suggest that the people and the world are the judges of what was done near the close of the eighteenth century in my hometown of Philadelphia. The articulation of the principles upon which the nation is to operate, the division of power among branches and levels of government and the rights due each of us and the protections accorded to them has become a pursuit of people and developing governments everywhere.

https://usa.usembassy.de/etexts/gov/constexport.pdf
"Since that seventeenth day of September 1787, a one-document constitution has been deemed an essential characteristic of nationhood. Today, of the 192 independent nations of the world, all but a very few have such a constitution or are committed to having one.
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Albert P. Blaustein was professor of law at Rutgers...School of Law. He authored numerous scholarly works on the subject of constitutionalism including a six—volume work on the U.S. Constitution entitled Constitution of Dependencies and Special Sovereignties. Blaustein helped draft more than 40 constitutions worldwide and visited many of those countries. In 1991, he helped to write the constitution for the Russian Republic."