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To: Who is John Galt?
"Sarcasm?" It's just a substitute for the absolute disgust you actually deserve...

...

Your opinions make me want to vomit...

Well, I read what you vomited up, and don't think there's any point in continuing whatever it is we're having.

I'm going to clean myself off, sport.

250 posted on 09/06/2008 11:16:33 AM PDT by x
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To: x
I'm going to clean myself off, sport.

I doubt it (you're too interested in your own little non-historical point of view). But here's a little help, sport, courtesy of Mr. Thomas Jefferson, if you actually want to attempt it:

The States in North America which confederated to establish their independence of the government of Great Britain, of which Virginia was one, became, on that acquisition, free and independent States, and as such, authorized to constitute governments, each for itself, in such form as it thought best...

To this construction of government and distribution of its powers, the Commonwealth of Virginia does religiously and affectionately adhere...

But the federal branch has assumed in some cases, and claimed in others, a right of enlarging its own powers by constructions, inferences, and indefinite deductions from those directly given, which this assembly does declare to be usurpations of the powers retained to the independent branches, mere interpolations into the compact, and direct infractions of it...

...Whilst the General Assembly [of the State of Virginia} thus declares the rights retained by the States, rights which they have never yielded, and which this State will never voluntarily yield, they do not mean to raise the banner of disaffection, or of separation from their sister States, co-parties with themselves to this compact. They know and value too highly the blessings of their Union as to foreign nations and questions arising among themselves, to consider every infraction as to be met by actual resistance. They respect too affectionately the opinions of those possessing the same rights under the same instrument, to make every difference of construction a ground of immediate rupture. They would, indeed, consider such a rupture as among the greatest calamities which could befall them; but not the greatest. There is yet one greater, submission to a government of unlimited powers...

"Declaration and Protest of the Commonwealth of Virginia, on the Principles of the Constitution of the United States of America, and on the Violations of Them," Thomas Jefferson, 1825

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/jeffdec1.htm

That's from Mr. Jefferson's SECOND declaration (which the liberals don't mention in our public schools). "[S]ubmission to a government of unlimited powers" - gosh, that's exactly what you are advocating!

No surprise there!

;>)

251 posted on 09/08/2008 5:05:18 PM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("Sometimes I have to break the law in order to meet my management objectives." - Bill Calkins, BLM)
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