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To: Tolsti2
Being against social contract theory basically means you’re against the US constitution as it was one of the earliest forms of it after the French revolution.

Um - the French Revolution? Are you implying that the French Revolution had an impact on the Constitution?

Lastly - "Social Contract" is used today to mean something ENTIRELY different that that which was meant 300+ years ago - kind of like the word liberal has changed meaning dramatically.

61 posted on 07/20/2010 5:08:28 AM PDT by An.American.Expatriate (Here's my strategy on the War against Terrorism: We win, they lose. - with apologies to R.R.)
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To: An.American.Expatriate

Yes, the French Revolution had a great deal of influence to the founders like Franklin and Jefferson.

And no, I’m not using the liberal term for it that you might see on blogs today. I’m using the proper term they teach, at least up to 8 years ago, in business law classes.

You and that other person seem to be using the incorrect leftist version of it against me. Stop doing that, it’s incorrect.


65 posted on 07/20/2010 5:11:08 AM PDT by Tolsti2
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To: An.American.Expatriate
kind of like the word liberal has changed meaning dramatically.

Correct, a Classic Liberal in the 1770's was an Anti-Statist (anti-Monarchist) and today a "Liberal" is a Statist (Marxist). 180% phase shift in meaning.

85 posted on 07/20/2010 5:25:44 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.)
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