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To: vis a vis
Re-reading as many of America's founding documents and writings of the founding period as possible!

Reason? The reason is that the upcoming 2016 elections are critical to the future of the nation, and liberty lovers must focus on and rededicate themselves to what Jefferson called, "the essential principles" of liberty, freedom and safety.

A reliable and ready source of reference for such documents is:

http://www.wallbuilders.com/

26 posted on 11/22/2015 9:00:37 AM PST by loveliberty2
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To: loveliberty2
Yes, first principles are essential.

I spent the summer reading Algernon Sidney's Discourses Concerning Government.

At the moment I'm about halfway through John Locke's Two Treatises of Government.

The vast majority of Americans don't realize that because we have abandoned our founding maxims, the best possible outcome next November is the exchange of Leftist despot for a benevolent despot.

86 posted on 11/22/2015 10:33:29 AM PST by Jacquerie ( To shun Article V is to embrace tyranny.)
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