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To: wagglebee
You should try the Federalist Papers sometime,

You are correct, sir. I do. But I figure the biggies are the D of I and the Constitution. Many conversations I have with them refer back to the Federalist Papers. Working slowly, but surely.

12 posted on 06/30/2007 5:50:42 PM PDT by Free State Four
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To: Free State Four
I think that it might behoove our politicians to look at this portion of the Declaration of Independence:

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. 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.

15 posted on 06/30/2007 5:58:18 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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