Amen @joshman! 👍 As one of the few politically active (formerly a District Leader over 43 precincts ...) Americans you might engage with and a student of the early days of America, I can assure you that exception does not exist.
"Dormant" for a number of years, I have "dusted off" one of my favorite hard-cover reference books and begun to read through it again - "The Patriot's Reference", by Joel J. Miller and Kristen Parrish. Reminds me once again of thoughts I had a long time ago. If we have any men "out there" today like our Founding Fathers, I am unaware of them ...