Whatever romanticized idea you have about them in your head is a fantasy.
They were normal people just like you and me, but they decided to form a centralized government with no long-term checks to constraining its ever-growing power.
They did this in secret meetings for which the notes were not released for 30 years after the fact.
Nobody affirmatively consented to this except the signatories, certainly not generations later.
They considered blacks sub-human. They had slaves.
Hello people!