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To: papertyger
Because a government of limited and enumerated powers where the citizen is sovereign, free markets, the rule of law, and property rights are FAR MORE than just “greed and avarice” (which is redundant) - it is the unique basis of our national character.

I am basing the limitations of government on the fact that the citizen is sovereign and has natural rights that any non-tyranous government is obliged to recognize.

You demeaned the fundamental basis of conservatism - and the unique basis our nation was founded upon - as ‘just greed and avarice’.

It is not.

It is an essential feature of a free Republic.

No less than a religious and moral people is an essential feature.

It is FAR MORE than just “greed and avarice”. It is the foundational philosophy of our nation. It is not so that people can make profit by their work that our freedom is guaranteed - but the ability to make profit from work is essential to any government of FREE people.

93 posted on 03/01/2012 11:43:50 AM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: allmendream
“greed and avarice” (which is redundant)

Look them up. You are as wrong on this point as the rest of your prattle.

At least you can't weasel out of THAT fact.

94 posted on 03/01/2012 12:18:16 PM PST by papertyger
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To: allmendream
I am basing the limitations of government on the fact that the citizen is sovereign and has natural rights that any non-tyranous government is obliged to recognize.

Oh I see, so tall people are taller than short people by virtue of their height....

You don't know enough to be entitled to an opinion.

95 posted on 03/01/2012 12:21:43 PM PST by papertyger
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