It does make its undertaking more a matter of trepidation, doesn't it? However, many enduring and well thought of governments have been created and existed without a single underlying foundational principle and to ask the one question as central would imply the other would be as well. In truth, the worth of a man, or a government, is not as simple as either question would imply.
We are seriously off the original topic of the thread, and the topic we are exchanging comments over, we have done to death countless times with few converts on either side.
When the Republic was threatened by the Clinton presidency, we were both here and I will settle for that.
If every system of government ever devised required a tried and true predicate on which to establish itself, there would never be any new form of government (including the American experiment).
However, many enduring and well thought of governments have been created and existed without a single underlying foundational principle
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and to ask the one question as central would imply the other would be as well. In truth, the worth of a man, or a government, is not as simple as either question would imply.
I am not suggesting the value of government independent of the content of the principles... I am suggesting that a lack of principles makes chaos.
We are seriously off the original topic of the thread, and the topic we are exchanging comments over, we have done to death countless times with few converts on either side.
True enough.
When the Republic was threatened by the Clinton presidency, we were both here and I will settle for that.
Ahhhh.... the ties that bind. :^]