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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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To: Dead Corpse
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.

He wanted the Constitution amended, he was not against the Constitution itself. Pretty much every supporter of the Constitution had their own ideas of how it could or should be improved.

The Anti-Federalists were opposed to any Constitution, amended or unamended. Characterizing Jefferson as an Anti-Federalist is simply disingenuous.

you agree he was against it because of the original lack of a BoR

Again, he was not against it. He wanted an enhanced Constitution, not no Constitution.

Lame. Just lame...

Saith the cut-and-paster.

55 posted on 07/30/2008 6:26:34 AM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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