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To: secretagent
This sounds to me like another argument from authority, this time representative government instead of majority rule.

Stick around. You'll find "We the People" and "we the people" used interchangeably, and transparently transitioned from one to the other, carried along by heaping globs of righteous indignation.

242 posted on 02/20/2007 5:40:52 PM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: tacticalogic

--- "heaping gobs" bump.


243 posted on 02/20/2007 6:34:26 PM PST by tpaine (" My most important function on the Supreme Court is to tell the majority to take a walk." -Scalia <)
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To: tacticalogic
You'll find "We the People" and "we the people" used interchangeably, and transparently transitioned from one to the other, carried along by heaping globs of righteous indignation.

What difference?

The Constitution of limited enumerated powers to secure the blessings of liberty vs...

any damn 'right' de jour ?

244 posted on 02/20/2007 6:56:16 PM PST by secretagent
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To: tacticalogic
You'll find "We the People" and "we the people" used interchangeably

Fringe on the flag time!

250 posted on 02/24/2007 8:34:27 AM PST by Mojave
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