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Coming along fine,
beginning with general philosophy, strictly adhering to the Nat'l Platform,
though better organizing & shortening it, even after having stricken
military & int'l issues as primarily irrelevant to a CO platform.
Nat'l's will obviously be better-organized at some future time; it presently
manifests as something of a double image, employing a couple of intro sections,
a couple of principles sections, plus other repetitions. Its 29 pp. of
computer copy could condense to half right off the bat without losing any
meaning, gaining coherency.
In addition to improved
organization, the main difference will be an improved general philosophical
introduction. I am not listing specific references, so I'll list my
main ones in this preliminary e-mail:
Ayn Rand, of course
- tho all her economic principles are to be found previously, after Adam
Smith, in David Ricardo & Herbert Spencer (circa Abraham Lincoln), then
& currently in "Austrian Economics". In the area of human
rights: George Mason's comprehension of Age of Reason &
Enlightenment philosophers, predated by Aristotle & other ancients who
dabbled in natural law. Mason wrote our founding principles first, for
Virginia, & alone refused to sign our outwardly-declared founding documents
only because the other forfathers could not bring themselves to declare openly
for private property rights & against slavery - yeah, way back
then! Gregg
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