Posted on 02/01/2003 5:24:46 AM PST by Gianni
Edited on 04/22/2004 12:35:27 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Several weeks ago, Internet pundit Iain Murray described what he called "the new temperance," a movement aimed at curbing America's alcohol habit.
Murray cited a particularly alarmist and misleading study claiming that "binge drinking" is on the rise.
Murray's right.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
"Mr." Hurley might be interested to know that most of our founding fathers had grave misgivings about having a Bill of Rights, precisely because they feared that government would slip into the habit of thinking that only those freedoms specified in the Bill of Rights were protected from government oppression.
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
They seemed very keen on human nature, knowing that the mob would one day grab power. Unfortunately, the extent of the conspiracy to overrule the Constitution was unimaginable in pre-civil war America.
Ultimately, they included the solution to the inevitable problem: 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.
"Just because it's hypocritical doesn't necessarily make it inconsistent."
You just can't buy entertainment like that.
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