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To: Roscoe
Ignorant nonsense.

So court decisions can invalidate our explicitly stated constitituional rights and that is no problem and good little conservatives should go along. Is that what you are saying?

I am sorry but your theory of government leaves us with no protection from tyranny short of an armed revolution. Don't you think that some non-violent alternative should be available for the people to defend themselves from an out of control government?

This really is a key point. I know that the far right and the far left want government all powerful to impose their ideas. Each forgets that the all powerful govt can just as easily impose the other side's ideas. Libertarians understand what the founders made very clear. Government is a dangerous servant and a fearful master and the jury idea was the final non-violent check on its powers.

By the way, the founders did not invent this. It is part of our heritage from at least as far back as the Magna Carta (1215 AD).

441 posted on 03/15/2003 2:20:07 PM PST by Mike4Freedom (Freedom is the one thing that you cannot have unless you grant it to everyone else.)
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To: Mike4Freedom
So court decisions can invalidate our explicitly stated constitituional rights

Wrong again.

no protection from tyranny short of an armed revolution.

Our historic systems of representative government have stood the test of time.

Your ignorance is your failure, not America's.

442 posted on 03/15/2003 3:45:34 PM PST by Roscoe
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