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To: capitan_refugio
That is why the the Preamble to the Constitution reads, .....

We've been over that.

1. The Preamble isn't law. It's a declaratory scoping statement, and not part of the social compact itself.

2. The Preamble was written by Hamilton et al. before the Constitutional Convention substantially changed their offering from an amalgamated nation-state to the federal system we have today, and the People further modified the social compact by adding the Bill of Rights as sine qua non for the ratification of the Constitution.

The People of the United States are NOT amalgamated. Rather "People" is a plural form, as well as singular, because of its collective nature. The Framers invariably wrote "people" as a plural, to mean an individual people of a State, or all the People of all the States.

But we explained that to you.

3,007 posted on 03/01/2005 1:18:01 AM PST by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: lentulusgracchus
"But we explained that to you."

And you're still wrong.

"The Preamble was written by Hamilton et al. before the Constitutional Convention substantially changed their offering from an amalgamated nation-state to the federal system we have today, and the People further modified the social compact by adding the Bill of Rights as sine qua non for the ratification of the Constitution."

Wrong about that, too. There were no conditions or requirements concerning ratification of the original document. With that said, a Bill of Rights was a prudent and reasonable compromise.

"The People of the United States are NOT amalgamated. Rather "People" is a plural form, as well as singular, because of its collective nature. The Framers invariably wrote "people" as a plural, to mean an individual people of a State, or all the People of all the States."

Standard confedero-doublespeak. For some things, there does, and did, exist a unitary "people."

3,049 posted on 03/01/2005 8:31:08 AM PST by capitan_refugio
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