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To: robertpaulsen
Nope. There's no need to do that. Why do you wish to limit the will of the people?

You seem to endorse no limits on "the will of the people". Is that right?

257 posted on 02/24/2007 11:51:09 AM PST by secretagent
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To: secretagent
"The first principle of republicanism is that the lex majoris partis is the fundamental law of every society of individuals of equal rights; to consider the will of the society enounced by the majority of a single vote as sacred as if unanimous is the first of all lessons in importance, yet the last which is thoroughly learnt. This law once disregarded, no other remains but that of force, which ends necessarily in military despotism." --Thomas Jefferson
258 posted on 02/24/2007 1:02:32 PM PST by Mojave
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To: secretagent
"You seem to endorse no limits on "the will of the people". Is that right?"

Aside from constitutional limits, no. Yet you do. Why?

260 posted on 02/24/2007 1:35:30 PM PST by robertpaulsen
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