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To: TAdams8591

I think that the founding fathers were libertarian within the context of their day, but would not have been within the modern context. In other words, their fundamental outlook was libertarian, but there are causes supported by modern libertarians that I doubt would be countenanced by them.


51 posted on 07/06/2005 7:42:48 PM PDT by Sam Cree (Democrats are herd animals)
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To: Sam Cree
"but there are causes supported by modern libertarians that I doubt would be countenanced by them."

Agreed. Freedom does NOT mean every person can do whatever immoral thing they want to do. That is not an idea the founders would support.

53 posted on 07/06/2005 7:50:14 PM PDT by TAdams8591 (Off-the-cuff-comments are NOT CLEAR and CONVINCING evidence.)
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