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To: Rome2000; C. Edmund Wright
>>There is no right to vote in the original Constitution,

"We hold these truths to be self-evident - that all men are Created equal..."

Not in the Constitution (neither is what C. Edmund Wright's Tea Parrot said was there) - but it is a foundational element of American ideology and I don't believe that creating a mass of disenfranchised individuals for the communists to recruit from is the best way go about securing the inalienable rights of the governed.

Seems to me the "solution" is articulated in stone upon the walls of the Jefferson Memorial:



Each one FReep one.
120 posted on 04/13/2013 7:39:40 AM PDT by TArcher ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men" -- Does that still work?)
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To: TArcher
You can't educate parasites, and the Founders had no intention of enfranchising all and instituting Universal Suffrage, which is the reason we are where we are today.

Giving everyone a right to vote creates a Democracy, and a political class which will pander to the parasites in exchange for power.

The Founders were brilliant men who understood history and the mistakes made by previous civilizations, mistakes which led to their demise.

I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy; but while it lasts, it is more bloody than either. … Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. It is in vain to say that democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious, or less avaricious than aristocracy or monarchy. It is not true, in fact, and nowhere appears in history. Those passions are the same in all men, under all forms of simple government, and when unchecked, produce the same effects of fraud, violence, and cruelty. When clear prospects are opened before vanity, pride, avarice, or ambition, for their easy gratification, it is hard for the most considerate philosophers and the most conscientious moralists to resist the temptation. Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never. John Adams, letter to John Taylor (15 April 1814).

Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ. Attributed to Thomas Carlyle "The Scholar in a Republic", centennial anniversary address to Phi Beta Kappa of Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts (June 30, 1881). Reported in Carlos Martyn and Wendell Phillips, The Agitator (1890), p. 581. Reported as unverified in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989).

122 posted on 04/13/2013 2:25:08 PM PDT by Rome2000 (THE WASHINGTONIANS AND UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE ARE THE ENEMY -ROTATE THE CAPITAL AMONGST THE STATES)
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