Most of a nation on probation?
Jim Choate
ravage at ssz.com
Wed Jul 4 16:57:57 PDT 2001
On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Sandy Sandfort wrote:
> Yes that IS the choice. This is not a logical fallacy. This is the real
> choice real people have to make every day. "Changing the system" is not an
> individual option.
Not only is it a logical fallicy, but a legal one as well. It's all(!) a
personal choice. Saying "I passed this law I knew was unconstitutional
because it was the only thing I could think of" doesn't excuse the abuse.
ONLY individuals have that right...it's a pity we've lost the true meaning
of 'American Democracy'. Just too radical for most folks I guess.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one
people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them
with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the
separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of
Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of
mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel
them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created
equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the
pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments
are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the
consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government
becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People
to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying
its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in
such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their
Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that
Governments long established should not be changed for light and
transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that
mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable,
than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are
accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations,
pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce
them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their
duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for
their future security.
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