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To: tpaine
I made no such "circular definition".

You can't prove the Constitution is a "social contract" by first defining "social contract" to mean "the Constitituion". The last 50 exchanges with you have been a waste of time; I'm finished.

393 posted on 02/24/2006 12:29:53 PM PST by Shalom Israel (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.)
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To: Shalom Israel
You claimed that

"-- I'll smash your definition, sending you back to square one. --"

The Constitutions preamble is a definition of the social contract embodied in that document. - You cannot refute that fact, [much less smash it] and you haven't even tried.

I never tried to "refute the preamble"; indeed there's nothing to refute there.

So your circular argument goes, -- because you can't refute the preamble as a definition.

Rather, I did refute your circular definition of "social contract".

Where? -- I made no such "circular definition". You're simply inventing your refutation to avoid trying to "smash" the one I did tender.

You can't prove the Constitution is a "social contract" by first defining "social contract" to mean "the Constitituion". The last 50 exchanges with you have been a waste of time; I'm finished.

You never got started..

The preamble to the Constitution is a self evident definition of its intent to establish a social contract between "We the People".

"-- We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. --"

394 posted on 02/24/2006 1:30:44 PM PST by tpaine
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