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To: Dead Corpse
Fascinating and consistent use of ellipsis and bracketing.

Apparently the complete and unvarnished words of Jefferson aren't as supportive of your thesis as the expurgated version you have presented.

And even those is embarrassingly weak.

Jefferson wanted a Bill of Rights, as did many of those who supported the Constitution and its ratification.

He made that quite clear.

Did he objection to the Constitution in principle? Not at all.

Did he oppose its ratification, as the Anti-Federalists did? Not at all.

52 posted on 07/30/2008 4:41:22 AM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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To: wideawake
Fascinating and consistent use of ellipsis and bracketing.

Blame the University of Virginia's website. http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/jeffcont.htm

And yeah... he was pretty much dead set against setting up a government that had no declaration of Rights in it. Without it, he was firmly against the Constitution.

I expected you to try and spin this, I just thought you'd have done a better job. As it is, you agree he was against it because of the original lack of a BoR, but then try and say he was for the whole thing anyway?

Lame. Just lame...

53 posted on 07/30/2008 5:59:08 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)
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