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To: Jacquerie
Are you saying that Jefferson would have demanded staying with the Article? Since you despise the Constitution and admire the Articles, how can you support someone who supported the Constitution?

I'm saying that my impression of TJ is that he had a much fiercer, more pronounced mistrust of government generally than his friend Madison did, and that his presence might have made some bit of difference.

It's not a question of "support." You continually revert to this sort of emotionalism, as if the choices are blind loyalty or ad hominem. I'm talking about the ideas they espoused, the documents they produced, the arguments they made. It's not personal. But with you, nothing short of reverence will do. They were men, not gods. Their ideas were written on paper, not etched in stone beside a burning bush.

150 posted on 12/22/2009 6:26:55 AM PST by Huck (The Constitution is an outrageous insult to the men who fought the Revolution." -Patrick Henry)
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To: Huck
Henry, unlike Jefferson was available to attend the convention. Pity he didn't. It takes some of the lustre off his reputation doesn't it?
154 posted on 12/22/2009 6:50:17 AM PST by Jacquerie (Support and defend our Beloved Constitution.)
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