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To: 2ndDivisionVet
he could, as president, protect their right to violently overthrow the president.

Like the right of self defense,the right of the people to overthrow a tyrannical government and replace it with a government that restores natural rights, is a perfect right.Like natural rights, perfect rights are prior to constitution and social contract.

60 posted on 04/17/2015 8:58:30 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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From the Declaration:
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.


66 posted on 04/17/2015 9:09:48 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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