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To: Jamie153 who wrote (1309504)	7/26/2021 3:05:02 PM
From: Maple MAGA	1 Recommendation Recommended By Mick Mørmøny Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579749

How did you come to that conclusion?

To: Jamie153 who wrote (1309504)	7/26/2021 3:06:10 PM
From: Maple MAGA	3 Recommendations Recommended By Bill Mick Mørmøny miraje Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579749

"Today, when a concerted effort is made to obliterate this point, it cannot be repeated too often that the Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals—that it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government—that it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizens’ protection against the government. Ours was the first government based on and strictly limited by a written document—the Constitution—which specifically forbids it to violate individual rights or to act on whim. The history of the atrocities perpetrated by all the other kinds of governments—unrestricted governments acting on unprovable assumptions—demonstrates the value and validity of the original political theory on which this country was built. A complex legal system, based on objectively valid principles, is required to make a society free and to keep it free—a system that does not depend on the motives, the moral character or the intentions of any given official, a system that leaves no opportunity, no legal loophole for the development of tyranny." Ayn Rand

To: Jamie153 who wrote (1309504)	7/26/2021 3:08:24 PM
From: Bill	2 Recommendations Recommended By Maple MAGA Mick Mørmøny Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579749

The constitution was ratified by the states, each of which held ratifying conventions consisting of elected representatives and delegates. We are a democratic republic after all.

To: Jamie153 who wrote (1309504)	7/26/2021 3:14:46 PM
From: Wharf Rat	1 Recommendation Recommended By pocotrader Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579749

"Don't forget that a tiny fraction of the people voted for the Constitution. Imagine if blacks, natives, women, and people without land could have voted. It wouldn't have passed" If it didn't pass, the Brits would have won the War of 1812 in about 1801.