Lonestar_logic
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Perhaps, perhaps not. You have no evidence that politicians of the 1780s could even adapt to our environment socially, culturally, and politically today. Can you imagine Madison, Jefferson, Washington, Mason, Lee and others even attending a Congress in which blacks and indians were members?
Yes I could imagine that happening in 2010.
Remember that you imagine that the reactionary right and Tea Party represaent a signficant portion of America, that somehow the movement is in touch with the larger American political will. How silly of you.
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No, the Virginians, if transported from then to today, would have not sat with such a Congress. They would not have been able to get their collective personality around such a concept. You have nothing in their writings that you could even hope to peg an argument to
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As I stated I believe the constitution to be a conservative writing.
If we were directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we would soon want for bread.
Thomas Jefferson
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
Thomas Jefferson
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
Benjamin Franklin
It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.
Alexander Hamilton
The great leading objects of the federal government, in which revenue is concerned, are to maintain domestic peace, and provide for the common defense.
Alexander Hamilton
The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
James Madison
As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
James Madison
No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
John Jay
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
John Adams
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
John Adams
The happiness of society is the end of government.
John Adams