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To: SuperLuminal

“We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.”
— Thomas Jefferson


3 posted on 04/20/2009 2:47:54 PM PDT by dajeeps
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To: dajeeps
"...but none to bind the succeeding generation...."

I wonder, as well, if that applies to binding, through property confiscation (taxes), my grandchildren and great grandchildren to trillions of dollars of debt.

4 posted on 04/20/2009 2:55:57 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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