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To: First_Salute
Our Constitution is a peace treaty.

Yes. Brilliantly stated.

Ours was the first government based on and strictly limited by a written document - the Constitution - which specifically forbids it to violate individual rights or to act on whim. The history of the atrocities perpetrated by all the other kinds of governments - unrestricted governments acting on unprovable assumptions - demonstrates the value and validity of the original political theory on which this country was built.
--Ayn Rand, "Censorship: Local and Express." 1982

19 posted on 07/14/2004 4:03:25 AM PDT by snopercod (The very basis of our freedom is that we are a Federation of Sovereign States -- Ronald Reagan)
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To: snopercod

=== which specifically forbids it to violate individual rights


Can you point me in the direction of Rand's assertion of and claim to "individuals rights?"

(I'm guessing she does not hold the Declaration in the same esteem as the Constitution.)


21 posted on 07/16/2004 4:25:25 PM PDT by Askel5
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