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To: Kevin Curry
No, the libertarian faith does not waver on this fundamental point: the Consititution is perfectly clear and means exactly what is says.

You've never heard me say that. I've long held a Tocquevillian view of the U.S. Constitution (i.e. it's far from perfect and has language that has made creeping socialism highly predictable). I think libertarians who take a "the founders were flawless" attitude do libertarianism a disservice.

708 posted on 01/31/2003 4:12:30 PM PST by ravinson
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To: ravinson
I think libertarians who take a "the founders were flawless" attitude do libertarianism a disservice.

I agree.

IMO, the libertarians who take the "Constitution is flawless" attitude are simply hiding from reality -- that because the Constitution is not the direct word of God or the direct pronoucements of objective reason, but instead written by human reason, then the Constitution is flawed.

The Constitution is a compromise -- the Constitution is not a libertarian document.

711 posted on 01/31/2003 6:17:21 PM PST by FreeReign
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