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To: savagesusie

All Founders stated that a free Republic is only possible with a virtuous people

No Founders stated that law could make a people virtuous.

64 posted on 11/24/2017 7:36:59 PM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")

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To: NobleFree; savagesusie

But the Founders never advocated getting rid of laws because “laws don’t make people virtuous”.

And they were perfectly fine with laws against sodomy, btw.

66 posted on 11/24/2017 7:42:37 PM PST by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)

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