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To: one_less who wrote (451071)	1/26/2009 3:07:04 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575341

"We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country. " (Thomas Jefferson) Jefferson did believe this, but it was one of his most absurd propositions (right after opposing slavery whilst being a slaveowner 'til the end). In their private letters between each other, he and Adams discussed this very subject. The "revolutionary" in Jefferson carried it a step further by espousing the belief that an occasional revolution is not only good for a People, but essential to modernizing and refreshing government. Of course, he conveniently overlooked the fact that stability in government is essential for any of the other "benefits" that Jefferson, himself, put forth in the Declaration. Adams pointed out that you cannot have a society based on the rule of law in which the law is unstable and subject to change on a whim. This kind of thinking was Jefferson's downfall, IMO. One gets the sense sometimes that he was a CJ or bentway, tossing around rather dumb concepts to see what rouses peoples' interests.