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To: JonPreston
Perhaps we have lost a fundamental concept which was in the minds of America's Founders and Framers of its Constitution: that is, the role of "Divine Providence" in their undertakings on behalf of liberty.

An examination of the history of nations reveals the long and arduous struggle by human beings for individual liberty--from kings, from masters, from whatever description fitted those other human beings who gained power and exercised it over their fellow citizens.

By whatever semantic maneuver those power holders chose to identify themselves, no matter how benevolent they purported to be, the end was the same: some individuals in the society or group were denied their Creator-endowed rights to be free.

In America, in the Year 1776, a genius group of freedom loving individuals declared a set of principles by which, if accepted, a society of like-minded individuals could enjoy "the pursuit of happiness."

Eleven years later, they "constituted" a form of self-government to assure that the goals of their Constitution's Preamble were to become reality for the nation.

The Preamble began with the words,

We, the People. . . .

The goal, of course, was the expansion, or enlargement, of liberty for individuals in the society--not the enlargement of government!

Perhaps Donald Trump's greatest achievement to this point can be described as one man's effort to "expand liberty" for individuals and to "contract government power," thereby allowing just a little individual freedom to flourish as it did in America both prior to 1776 and thereafter.

By the way, has anyone here read Burke's Speech on Conciliation. . . . lately? If not, please read his description of how the "spirit of liberty" among the colonists, even before 1776, had resulted in the American colonies literally "feeding" the Old World!

The word, "liberty," should, once again become the watchword for American citizens.

14 posted on 02/14/2019 9:36:13 AM PST by loveliberty2 (`)
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To: loveliberty2

“...Eleven years later, they “constituted” a form of self-government to assure that the goals of their Constitution’s Preamble were to become reality for the nation.

The Preamble began with the words,

We, the People. . . .
The goal, of course, was the expansion, or enlargement, of liberty for individuals in the society—not the enlargement of government!...”

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Somewhere.....I read......that “We The People”...turned outto be the signers themselves, etc.
We Da sheeple works too!
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SemperTRUMP.45!
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22 posted on 02/14/2019 9:44:58 AM PST by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
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