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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (363118)2/24/2003 8:02:53 PM
From: Steve Dietrich  Read Replies (2) of 769670
 
<<"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,>>

And this was the great and radical idea: the right to rule came from below (the people), not above.

Jefferson was a believer of natural self evident human rights. Man comes with these rights. For government's purposes it doesn't matter where they come from, they're self evident.

As Deism dictated: men were to rule by reason not revelation.

Steve
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