<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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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I like Spooner's article - which I only read for the first time a
couple of month's ago - refuting the inviolabilty of the United State
constitution. His argument is basically yours - that the constitution
may have been a contract between it's signators, but that they had no
authority to bind anyone else and that in any case, since the
original signators of that contract are now all dead, the contract
itself died with the last of them.
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