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Let's carry your example a step (or maybe a couple of steps) further
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A good one, and we can carry it in all kinds of directions. It still
all goes to the root question, though:
How do a handful of people create a "contract" which not only binds
the 99.99+% of the other people besides themselves in an area, but all
subsequent generations, to adhere to it and to be considered to have
delegated power to others under it?
The Constitution was proposed by 55 men -- and those men hadn't been
given any mandate by anybody to propose it. Their mandate (from
Congress) was to propose amendments to the Articles of Confederation,
which explicitly disallowed their own replacement.
Instead, the 55 proposed to illegally replace the Articles, then
Congress created an artificial ratification criterion -- approval by
non-representative conventions in nine of 13 states -- for doing so.
Precisely how the proposals of 55 men, "ratified" by a few hundred
other men in a nation of three million people -- most of whom were not
allowed any voice whatsoever in any of the processes which culminated
in said "ratification" -- can be said to have bound not only every one
of those three million, but all of their descendants and anyone else
who might ever happen to cross imaginary (and changing) lines on the
ground would seem to me to be a question not for logic, but for religion.
Tom Knapp
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