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To: ALPAPilot
Perhaps it would be better to enlighten the fellow Freeper with the arguments the Founding Fathers made in support of this method

You know, the Founding Fathers already kindly did that. They actually wrote them down for us to read. All anyone, including Freepers need to do is Google up "The Federalist Papers", pour a nice glass of wine, and read.

Pretty smart fellers, them Founding Fathers.

24 posted on 02/20/2012 4:17:08 PM PST by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: Lurker
Pretty smart fellers, them Founding Fathers.

Without a doubt, but I will quote Larry Arnn, President of Hillsdale College and author of the recent The Founders' Key - the Divine and Natural Connection Between the Declaration and the Constitution and What We Risk by Losing It.

That means all of the great questions are subject to dispute. You have to make students dispute them. By the way, the great books are full of those disputes. The lesson of Aristotle's Ethics, without any question, is that there is a right way for a man to live, and to live that way is happiness itself, whatever the exterior circumstances, and to fail to live that way is disaster. That's what he argues. But he argues that in a context in which enormous questions are opened, and have to be debated. You can't have a real understanding unless you do that. And you can't do that just because you've got a good teacher. You've got to really want to do it.

My main point is that all Americans, including Freepers need to understand how the principles of the founding apply to our situation right here right now. That job the founders necessarily left to us.

25 posted on 02/20/2012 5:52:18 PM PST by ALPAPilot
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