of the United States whether they like it or not, whether they agree
or not, and whether they want it or not. It doesn't matter how long
ago the contract was made, or how many people voted on it, or how big
the country was at that time.
If you live within the borders of the United States, you're OBLIGED to
adhere to it. If you don't, any claims that your rights are being
infringed upon when you try to smuggle goods in, are laughable.
--- In [email protected], "Thomas L. Knapp"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Quoth kiddleddee:
>
> -----
> Let's carry your example a step (or maybe a couple of steps) further
> -----
>
> 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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