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To: grumpygresh
I'm a big fan of federalism. And of the entire Constitution (less amendments 16 and 17 which screwed federalism up). And I'm even a bigger fan of the Declaration.

The Founders knew what the were doing:

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

307 posted on 04/09/2014 1:08:12 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: grumpygresh

Evolve, adapt? Yeah, right. Tell it to the Founders.

Live free or die!!


308 posted on 04/09/2014 1:09:57 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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