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To: Springfield Reformer
So John Marshall, Lieutenant to the Culpepper Minutemen, Lieutenant in the Continental Army 11th Virginia Regiment, member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1782-89, Member of the 1788 Virginia Ratifying Convention, private attorney practicing before the Supreme Court during the Washington Administration, member of the Virginia House of Delegates again from 1795-1796, personal friend of George Washington, and appointee as Chief Justice of the United States by John Adams, was a "non-founder."

Curious.

In fact, almost as curious as your quotes, which say nothing even remotely resembling what you purport them to say.

It all attests to one of two possibilities: you are horrendously ignorant of American history, or you are delusional. The former is more easily corrected than the latter, but it requires the afflicted to recognize it and seek betterment for himself. That is also a difficult task when the former exists in the presence of the latter, which I fear may be your case.

251 posted on 05/13/2010 2:44:30 PM PDT by conimbricenses
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To: conimbricenses

Con,

A founder is one who actually founds. The entire generation alive in 1776 is the founding generation, and many of them personally knew the Founders, but only a few among them are actually the Founders, most notably those who crafted the original ideas and wrote the original founding documents which are the subject of our inquiry. I name my sources among that stratospheric group. Your single thread of evidence is from a man who had no role in the creation of those founding documents, but instead helped “found” that pernicious doctrine we now call judicial supremacy (aka judicial activism).

Furthermore, the fact that you do not understand how the natural law principles of those original Founders trump a Ron Paulish hyper-federalism is not my problem, not anymore. You do realize you never actually refute anything. You only throw mud at the messenger. Nice. Seriously, did you go to school with Alinsky, or what?

I therefore retain my conviction that it is you sir who is engaged in evasion. However, in as mush as I now believe you will feel compelled to have the last word, and that it will necessary involve uncivil insults, have at it.

Bye,

SR


252 posted on 05/13/2010 4:07:20 PM PDT by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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