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To: achilles2000
By the way, I don’t recall arguing that any Founder advocated a LEVIATHAN police state.

No, you just insinuated it as a logical fallacy (If you believe this notion (that I'm imputing against you) then you must believe that notion (that I'm also imputing against you).

Still, your quaint view of the Founders does seem to omit facts that are inconvenient. Did a Founder sign the Alien and Sedition Act? Did Federalists pass it? How does criminalizing political speech comport with “Congress shall make no law...”?

I can't quite tell where you're going with this. Yes, Founders signed the Alien and Sedition Act. Yes, Founders passed it. And yes, it was problematic. Life isn't neatly tied with a ribbon. It's a messy affair with competing interests, compromises, and mistakes. I would suggest that it is you who holds "quaint views" about not only the founding of our nation but its evolution.

280 posted on 06/06/2014 8:29:35 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: rockrr

It wasn’t “Founders”; it was Federalists. It wasn’t “messy”; it was a rank violation of the Constitution to increase Federal power.

Now that you’ve characterized the nation as “evolving”, I think you really ought to realize that, when push comes to shove, you are a proponent of Brennan’s “Living Constitution”, e.g.,

https://litigation-essentials.lexisnexis.com/webcd/app?action=DocumentDisplay&crawlid=1&doctype=cite&docid=139+U.+Pa.+L.+Rev.+1319&srctype=smi&srcid=3B15&key=d263a5b83b1b35d2e52f29b72a6ad1f5


281 posted on 06/06/2014 10:31:02 AM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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