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To: BroJoeK
Most people do not consider the US Constitution in any way inconsistent with the Declaration of Independence.

No they don't, and mostly it isn't, but some try to claim it has a higher authority than does the Declaration, and this is certainly wrong. I would also point out that most people think Obama is a good idea, so I would say the concept of "most people" as a determiner of valid thinking is not a very good methodology.

But regardless, the Constitution replacing the old Articles of Confederation is our current government's Founding Document, and any interpretation of it must begin with Founders' original intent.

I'm not sure you are grasping the meaning of "founding" in this context. There can be only one "founding" document. The other one is more or less just rules for governing, the "founding" document is the one that created the Nation. The operating charter is just a set of rules for running it. We've had two so far.

Without reference to original intent, you have no basis on which to measure anything except your own personal definitions of words, definitions which can easily turn the Constitution into total mush.

"Original Intent" is that a group of Slave Owning States had a God given right to gain independence from a Larger Union.

The rest of what you wrote is just drivel, and not cognizant enough to bother with rebutting.

656 posted on 07/30/2015 4:15:55 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp
"Original Intent" is that a group of Slave Owning States had a God given right to gain independence from a Larger Union.

Virginian George Washington, the great man who stood head and shoulders above the great men of the founding generation, said the exact opposite of what you say, at great length and it explicit detail, in his valedictory Farewell Address.

660 posted on 07/30/2015 4:32:17 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: DiogenesLamp
DiogenesLamp: ""Original Intent" is that a group of Slave Owning States had a God given right to gain independence from a Larger Union.
The rest of what you wrote is just drivel, and not cognizant enough to bother with rebutting."

Your words in no way describe the Original Intent of Founders who wrote and ratified the US Constitution.
And your efforts to drive a wedge between the Declaration and Constitution are just ridiculous, of no merit: case dismissed.

725 posted on 07/31/2015 1:27:53 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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