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Barr, Libertarians lose Texas ballot fight
Legal Newsline ^ | 9/23/08

Posted on 09/23/2008 1:39:55 PM PDT by jasonmyos

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To: antiRepublicrat

They weren’t enforced against the Democrats, were they?


21 posted on 09/23/2008 7:25:58 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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They weren’t enforced against the Democrats, were they?

Of course not. While the parties like to fight over the stuff that doesn't matter, like national security and other inconsequentials, they always present a united front when it comes to what really matters, them remaining in power.

But the Constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.

All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party ...

However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.

George Washington, 1796. I swear that man could see into the future.
22 posted on 09/23/2008 7:40:46 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: ari-freedom

I don’t even think Barr is a US citizen......:)


23 posted on 09/24/2008 3:26:56 AM PDT by cherry
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Barr was born on November 5, 1948, in Iowa City, Iowa to Bob and Beatrice Barr. His father, a West Point soldier, moved the family to various locations around the world while pursing his career in civil engineering. The second of six children, Bob Jr. spent his boyhood in Malaysia, Pakistan, Panama, and finally Tehran, Iran where he graduated from Community High School in 1966

the right wing Obama?


24 posted on 09/24/2008 3:30:52 AM PDT by ari-freedom (We never hide from history. We make history!)
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To: antiRepublicrat
>> Do you think for a moment that if the Libertarian Party had filed and said "We'll fill in the blanks for the candidates later" that they would have a place on the ballot? <<

Worked for the Consitution Party in Illinois.

25 posted on 09/27/2008 2:47:47 AM PDT by BillyBoy (Operation Chaos - Phase 1: Hillary Phase 2: Palin)
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