The Founders Of Our Country Were Objectively Anti-Torture

http://www.juancole.com/2014/12/founding-foundational-constitution.html

This is a really solid piece of accessible scholarly writing that points out the many ways in which the men who created this nation abhorred the practice of torture.  For all the Tea Party paeans to Constitutional originalism and reverence for "the Founders" my guess is that they will deny this basic enlightenment ideal that animated the creation of this country: that the state must be bound by its own laws.