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To: Dead Corpse
Government would be nearly non-existant.

The founding fathers tried that for a few years. Made much wiser by the experience, they roundly rejected it in favor of the current Constitution.

This may come as a disheartening blow to some, but the truth is that Jefferson, Adams, Madison et al were much wiser than the average libertarian posting at FR.

67 posted on 05/03/2006 3:30:47 PM PDT by JCEccles (Kitzmiller Syndrome: anger and paranoia that someone is harboring critical thoughts about darwinism.)
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To: JCEccles

Well... they are certainly much smarter than you. Would you care to trade more insults? It seems to be what you are on this thread for... You certainly don't seem capable of rational debate.


71 posted on 05/03/2006 3:34:11 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.)
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To: JCEccles
JCEccles:

The founding fathers tried that for a few years. Made much wiser by the experience, they roundly rejected it [confederation] in favor of the current Constitution.

Yep, and the current Constitution is overwhelmingly supported by the libertarians on this forum, and by and large ignored by partisans of other political parties; -- just as their parties dictate.

This may come as a disheartening blow to some, but the truth is that Jefferson, Adams, Madison et al were much wiser than the average libertarian posting at FR.

Funny how much FR's libertarians use quotes from the Founders to illustrate libertarian principles though, isn't it? -- Could it be that many of those men were 'libertarian', -- before the word was invented?

Bet on it.

127 posted on 05/03/2006 4:58:07 PM PDT by tpaine
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