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To: Kevin Curry; u-89
To: u-89
"...The founding fathers rejected this cramped libertarian worldview when they trash-canned the weak and ineffective Articles of Confederation and crafted the more vigorous and muscular Constitution."
# 79 by Kevin Curry
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The Founding Fathers didn't abandon their libertarian ideas when they wrote the Constitution, Kevin Curry.

The Constitution recognizes our rights, prohibits government from infringing on those rights, recognizes that rights don't come from government, and says that government cannot take powers not granted by the people.

That doesn't sound like anything a Republican or Democrat would agree with, does it? It is, however, something a libertarian could offer whole-hearted support to.

116 posted on 11/19/2002 3:51:45 PM PST by exodus
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To: exodus
Excellent rebuttals, exodus!
118 posted on 11/19/2002 3:57:04 PM PST by mamaduck
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