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To: HammerT
HammerT said: "Withdrawing my consent to be governed – I like that."

This is exactly what our Founders did and they enumerated the reasons. They considered the throwing off of tyranny not just a right, but a duty.

If the Founders were not bound due to any consent provided by their antecedents, then how could we possibly be bound by their consent?

In the case of our Founders, the tyrant was relatively free to make war against them. Today our government is only able to tyrannize us by ignoring the constraints of the Constitution. It is not we who are dissolving the bonds which have joined us; it is the government by ignoring the clear language of the compact between us.

56 posted on 02/11/2014 8:58:13 AM PST by William Tell
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To: William Tell
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new guards for their future security

Thomas Jefferson

57 posted on 02/11/2014 9:54:34 AM PST by HammerT (The COMMONSENSE CIVIL RIGHT OF ARMED SELF-DEFENSE [CASD], itÂ’s the law of the land.)
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