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To: spunkets

So if the Founder were libertarians, why would they want big government to run post offices? They wouldn't. They weren't.


141 posted on 05/03/2006 5:25:51 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe

How can you speak of "the Founders" as if they had a common set of beliefs? They did not. Consider, for example, the philosophical differences between George Mason and John Adams.


142 posted on 05/03/2006 5:29:00 PM PDT by oblomov (Join the FR Folding@Home Team (#36120) keyword: folding@home)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
"So if the Founder were libertarians, why would they want big government to run post offices?

They were classical liberals, essentially libertarians. That does not mean they were libertarians. Also, the postal service was the country's comm link. There was no private service available, nor was it possible to create one of the same capacity. As a matter of fact, the service was necessary to conduct govm't operations and for the conduct of commerce, which was one of the major motivations for the creation of the Constitution in the first place.

151 posted on 05/03/2006 5:48:41 PM PDT by spunkets
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