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WRSA has linked to a column written by Tom Baugh.
I disagree with several fundamental assertions Tom takes, and have explained them many times before in books, columns, comments and here at the blog. No sense going over them again.
Here's the relevant point: Whether one wants the Constitution or not, getting back to a condition that existed prior to Lincoln's victory in RevWarII will serve as a significant waypoint on the travels back to Liberty.
Let's get to that waypoint, then talk about the next step.
Until then: Restore the Constitution, as ratified, and implemented in the spirit of the DoI and BoR.
Here's the link. Be sure to note Curtis' simple challenge: Draft a document that can self-enforce. It can't be done. And I also contend we do not have the collection of brainpower alive in America today to come to come up with a better document. But, hey - prove me wrong and write it. Anyone? Bueller?
Here's TL's take on it.
Let's all remember that Lysander was just fine with the Constitution until the Union abused it so egregiously and enslaved the entire republic.
It is not perfect. And any argument that it was all a conspiracy fails on so many levels I can't begin, again, to bother. But, here's one: The men who drafted the Constitution and signed their names to it are not the men who imposed it upon the States. No, you see it took years for each state legislature to ratify...so, unless you contend that every State Legislature was part of the conspiracy, and they got away with the world's grandest Conspiracy right out in the open, in a post-Revolutionary War environment where men would not have hesitated to pick up their kit again and go hunting for tyrants in political office...
Damn, I couldn't help myself and prattled on. I'm done.
Kerodin
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