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To: Monorprise
You will forgive me when I say I find that a bit ridicules. Why would we have fought a war to assert our natural rights only to plunge ourselves right back into a situation in which we must do the same all over again.

And I find your grammar and spelling ridiculous, but never mind. To answer your question, though, (it was a question, even though not punctuated as one, right?), the answer is that it was because they wanted to. They felt that the government no longer served them and resorted to their natural right of revolution. And in the time since the US had militarily won its independence from Britain, much of the civilized western world had undergone political revolutions, from France to Haiti to the Bolivarian revolutions, Mexico, Italy, Greece, all the 1848 stuff. Iit was an age of revolutions, of rebellions, of the birth of modern nationalism. It was in the wind.

Hell, Thomas Jefferson thought 20 years was too long.

237 posted on 02/16/2011 1:19:49 PM PST by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

I noticed that TJ didn’t think much about that when he was the prez...


238 posted on 02/16/2011 1:21:51 PM PST by rockrr ("I said that I was scared of you!" - pokie the pretend cowboy)
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