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To: Recovering_Democrat
You have strayed far from the original post. No government, federal, state or local, should have such control over peoples choices. YOU believe they should just uproot their lives to escape a tyrannical, socialist government. That is not a conservative ideal.

"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." George Washington

68 posted on 06/15/2011 5:54:04 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are at your door! How will you answer the knock?)
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To: DJ MacWoW

George Washington signed onto the Constitution, which embodied the federalist notions I’ve been defending.

You caricature my argument by saying I defend tyranny. I embrace instead the idea that unpopular laws can be fixed by the people of the state or the people of the state who disagree can leave. I’ve even given examples, contemporary ones even, of those states. You’ve engaged in ad hominems.

We’re done. If you want to try and make yourself feel better by getting in one last name-calling post, go ahead. Your ego will be massaged, since I won’t respond, and you can think you’ve really zinged me good. :)

Afterward, I suggest you do a good study of dual and cooperative federalism before you try to negate the Tenth Amendment by railing against those of us who defend the same.

Eventually you should read the Federalist Papers, the contemporary commentary of the Constitution, which says the powers to states are far more numerous than the federal government. The Federalist Papers did not embrace tyranny either—they merely taught that the Constitution gives great leeway to the states that it PROHIBITS the national government from exercising.

I find it sad you are unable or unwilling to grasp that concept.

Good night.


69 posted on 06/15/2011 6:50:13 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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