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To: Timber Rattler
Wrong. I spent a good portion of my academic life studying the Founders.

You'll pardon if I'm less than impressed by your assertion. I've met many people with advanced degrees in subjects who spent a good portion of their academic lives studying these subjects - and yet who were obliviously clueless about them.

Would you mind FReepmailing me some of your papers?

There's a very good reason that Thomas Jefferson and the Anti-Federalists bitterly opposed him."

Well, there were very well-defined political reasons why Jefferson and the anti-Feds opposed him, but this is not the same as saying that they were good reasons.

Jefferson and his agrarian worldview opposed Hamilton and his view of commerce and industry. The former naturally favoured the large-landholding slave owners in the plantation states, while the latter favoured the free man capitalistic manufacturer and merchant. It's not surprising that slave owners would oppose a group whose worldview was increasingly coming to value free labour (in the sense of "free to take their labour where they can get the best value for it) over and against "free" labour (in the sense of getting to compel it from someone else by force).

30 posted on 05/28/2012 7:00:45 AM PDT by Yashcheritsiy (A conservative voting for Romney is like a chicken voting for Col. Sanders)
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To: Yashcheritsiy

I think comparing the founders in modern day political terms is foolish. Remember these were highly educated men with very different backgrounds building a concept for a country without precedent. And they took considerable personal risk to do so.

They succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.

I would have any one of them as President in a heartbeat, or any other executive position for that matter, if they were alive today.

They could think, and they had values. They could write and express their ideas in ways few today can do without agents and helpers.

We were blessed to have them all, including the ones whose personal lives had 18th century baggage.


33 posted on 05/28/2012 7:45:04 AM PDT by JeanLM (Obama proves melanin is not enough)
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