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To: Roscoe
The US Constitution is a very libertarian style document. I consider it an accomplishment of libertarian thought & ideals, before the word 'libertarian' was coined.
87 posted on 12/24/2001 7:56:48 AM PST by tpaine
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To: tpaine
The US Constitution is a very libertarian style document.

In the words of one its authors:

"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other." -John Adams

See the problem?

88 posted on 12/24/2001 8:00:47 AM PST by Kevin Curry
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To: tpaine
The US Constitution is a very libertarian style document.

No, it isn't.

Come on. One accomplishment.

Surely the limitations of Libertarianism aren't so crippling that it hasn't managed to accomplish anything?

89 posted on 12/24/2001 8:01:20 AM PST by Roscoe
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