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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jttmab who wrote (16297)	10/28/2002 2:05:45 PM
From: Steve Dietrich	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Here's Jefferson on original intent. He didn't believe that one generation had the right to legislate another, that that would be a refutation of self-rule From law.du.edu But I know also that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy . . .Let us [not] weakly believe that one generation is not capable as another of taking care of itself, and of ordering its own affairs. . . . It is now forty years since the constitution of Virginia was formed. [Mortality tables] inform us, that, within that period, two-thirds of the adults then living are now dead. Have then the remaining third, even if they had their wish, the right to hold in obedience to their will, and to laws heretofore made by them, the other two-thirds, who, with themselves, compose the present mass of adults? If they have not, who has? The dead? But the dead have no rights. They are nothing; and nothing cannot own something. . . . This corporeal globe, and everything upon it, belong to its present corporeal inhabitants, during their generation. They alone have a right to direct what is the concern fo themselves alone, and to declare the law of that direction; and this declaration can only be made by their majority. Steve