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Re: Reform or Revolution? [Re: silversoul7]
    #2827918 - 06/25/04 11:59 AM (19 years, 9 months ago)

what about evolution?

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Re: Reform or Revolution? [Re: ]
    #2827939 - 06/25/04 12:06 PM (19 years, 9 months ago)

takes too long. :smirk:


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Re: Reform or Revolution? [Re: Innvertigo]
    #2828053 - 06/25/04 12:40 PM (19 years, 9 months ago)

yeah but maybe it's the only way mankind will ever make it to utopia if its possible that is
we aren't perfect and probably never will be so its an endless cycle of mistakes/lessons that can only be learnt from mistakes and lessons

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Re: Reform or Revolution? [Re: ]
    #2828076 - 06/25/04 12:44 PM (19 years, 9 months ago)

Well since society is so quick to hide and forget all the bad things that has happened in the past (revising history to be politically correct) evolution is only possible if past experiences are used as a reference. The public "education" today doesn't teach the truth, rather teaches what they wish the truth was.


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Re: Reform or Revolution? [Re: Innvertigo]
    #2828105 - 06/25/04 12:51 PM (19 years, 9 months ago)

yep,totally agree

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Re: Reform or Revolution? [Re: silversoul7]
    #2828367 - 06/25/04 02:24 PM (19 years, 9 months ago)

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silversoul7 said:
That's what worries me. What kind of revolution would a bunch of rednecks, welfare moms, illegal immigrants, etc. create? We were lucky during the American Revolution to have some of the greatest minds in our history living at that time.




We can all go our seperate ways, with a divided nation instead of a whole one. It sounds bad, but if we can isolate what people want more specifically, rednecks can have their place and illegal immagrants can have theirs, and all the ones inbetween.

The greatest leaders are the one who dont have a shot to get to the top in our current system, a revolution may bring about some very amazing thinkers of this time.

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Re: Reform or Revolution? [Re: Innvertigo]
    #2828407 - 06/25/04 02:41 PM (19 years, 9 months ago)

The public "education" today doesn't teach the truth, rather teaches what they wish the truth was.

In what way? You mean you can't independently verify anything you're taught in public education?


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Re: Reform or Revolution? [Re: Redo]
    #2828452 - 06/25/04 02:56 PM (19 years, 9 months ago)

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We need to break up into many sub-governments,



Right. Let's see.... what shall we call them? Oooohh, I know, we can call them "states".

Sorry if anyone beat me to this but I'm still working my way down through this thread.


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Re: Reform or Revolution? [Re: DieCommie]
    #2828694 - 06/25/04 05:03 PM (19 years, 9 months ago)

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DieCommie said:
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uki said:
if western civilization with all its flaws, disease, war, sickness, fear, denial, and all that other fun stuff is a higher standard of living... i'd like to know what a low standard is.


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Well off the top of my head id say a higher standard -Penicillin, Womens Rights, Literature, Scientific Method, Increased Life spans, Dentistry, Shower/Bath, Farming, increased abstract thought

Surely you dont believe the humans of ancient times lived without "flaws, disease, war, sickness, fear, ?denial?"




medicine is not a modern industrial creation, nor is literature, nor is science, nor is bathing, nor is farming, NOR IS ABSTRACT THOUGHT.

-Penicillin, womens rights and maybe increased life span i'll give u.


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Re: Reform or Revolution? [Re: luvdemshrooms]
    #2828940 - 06/25/04 06:59 PM (19 years, 9 months ago)

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luvdemshrooms said:
Right. Let's see.... what shall we call them? Oooohh, I know, we can call them "states".





States do not have enough flexibility from the federal government.

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Re: Reform or Revolution? [Re: BleaK]
    #2829206 - 06/25/04 09:37 PM (19 years, 9 months ago)

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BleaK said:
medicine is not a modern industrial creation, nor is literature, nor is science, nor is bathing, nor is farming, NOR IS ABSTRACT THOUGHT.

-Penicillin, womens rights and maybe increased life span i'll give u.


We are not talking about "industrial creation" we were talking about pre-civilization...My post was comparing the quality of life for nomad tribes and civilization....

Yes ancient peoples before civilization had medicine....but it dosent even come close to the quality of modern medicine....

literature is defiantly a product of civilization! Can you name and hunter gatherer peoples with a written language? Obviously the Egyptians had writing, but there writing was based on pictures not phonetics. Only when a written language based on phonetics was developed did literature come...this was in ancient Greece(id say around 500-1000 BCE)....

by science i meant the scientific method..i should have clarified...but that also was "invented" by the greeks and slowly perfected by other civilizations....

obviously nomad tribes didn't have bathtubs...thus no bathing...

farming is the key to civilization....hunter gatherers dont farm...

abstract thought...now this one is obviously alot more subjective...im not gonna say ancient nomads didnt have abstract thought...but with the start of farming ancient people were allowed more time to think and less to work thus promoting further abstract thought...

Whew kind of a rant there....hope you understand where i was comin from now!

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Re: Reform or Revolution? [Re: Redo]
    #2829247 - 06/25/04 10:01 PM (19 years, 9 months ago)

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Redo said:
States do not have enough flexibility from the federal government.



Thanks to Abraham Lincoln and many other presidents since him. The federal government was originally a federation of independant states, the right to secession was clearly understood and accepted in the original United States.


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Re: Reform or Revolution? [Re: DieCommie]
    #2829318 - 06/25/04 10:36 PM (19 years, 9 months ago)

as far as i know u just said ancient...

and this is a thread on reform or revolution... we arent going to revert back THAT far


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Re: Reform or Revolution? [Re: BleaK]
    #2829465 - 06/26/04 12:07 AM (19 years, 9 months ago)

uki brought it up.  he wants to live in a pre-civilization like era.  :shrug:

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Re: Reform or Revolution? [Re: DieCommie]
    #2831463 - 06/26/04 06:07 PM (19 years, 9 months ago)

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uki brought it up.  he wants to live in a pre-civilization like era.  :shrug:


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you sir are a fool.
i just re-read the entire post. uki mentioned nothing of the like.


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Re: Reform or Revolution? [Re: Evolving]
    #2831590 - 06/26/04 07:10 PM (19 years, 9 months ago)

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Thanks to Abraham Lincoln and many other presidents since him. The federal government was originally a federation of independant states, the right to secession was clearly understood and accepted in the original United States.




Source?

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Re: Reform or Revolution? [Re: Tao]
    #2831654 - 06/26/04 07:44 PM (19 years, 9 months ago)

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TaoTeChing said:
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Thanks to Abraham Lincoln and many other presidents since him. The federal government was originally a federation of independant states, the right to secession was clearly understood and accepted in the original United States.




Source?



See Articles of Confederation.


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Re: Reform or Revolution? [Re: Tao]
    #2831979 - 06/26/04 10:32 PM (19 years, 9 months ago)

"Article II. Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence, and every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not by this Confederation expressly delegated to the United States, in Congress assembled."
- The Articles of Confederation

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"...to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it...it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. "

"We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by the Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do."
- The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies
In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776


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"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
- US Constitution 9th Amendment


"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people."
- US Constitution 10th Amendment

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"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation and foreign commerce. ... The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives and liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement and prosperity of the State.
- James Madison, in Federalist Paper No. 45

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"In order to ascertain the real character of the government, it may be considered in relation to the foundation on which it is to be established; to the sources from which its ordinary powers are to be drawn; to the operation of those powers; to the extent of them; and to the authority by which future changes in the government are to be introduced.

On examining the first relation, it appears, on one hand, that the Constitution is to be founded on the assent and ratification of the people of America, given by deputies elected for the special purpose; but, on the other, that this assent and ratification is to be given by the people, not as individuals composing one entire nation, but as composing the distinct and independent States to which they respectively belong. It is to be the assent and ratification of the several States, derived from the supreme authority in each State, the authority of the people themselves. The act, therefore, establishing the Constitution, will not be a NATIONAL, but a FEDERAL act.

That it will be a federal and not a national act, as these terms are understood by the objectors; the act of the people, as forming so many independent States, not as forming one aggregate nation... Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its voluntary act"
- James Madison, in Federalist Paper No. 39

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"If any state in the Union will declare that it prefers separation ... to a continuance in the union .... I have no hesitation in saying, 'Let us separate.'"
- Thomas Jefferson

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"The assent and ratification of the people,not as individuals composing an entire nation, but as composing the distinct and independent States to which they belong, are the sources of the Constitution. It is, therefore, not a national but a federal compact."
- James Madison

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"The delegates do, in the name and in behalf of the people of Virginia, declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution, being derived from the people of the United States, may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression, and that every power not granted thereby remains with them and at their will."
- State Of Virginia ratification (5 Bulletin of the Bureau of Rolls, 145.) Calhoun's Works, 248-251.

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"That the powers of government may be reassumed by the people whenever it should become necessary to their happiness, that every power, jurisdiction and right which is not by the said Constitution clearly delegated to the Congress of the United States or the departments of the government thereof, remains to the people of the several States, or to their respective State governments, to whom they may have granted the same; and that those clauses in the said Constitution, which declare that Congress shall not have or exercise certain powers, do not imply that Congress is entitled to any powers not given by the said Constitution; but such clauses are to be construed either as exceptions to certain specified powers or as inserted merely for greater caution."
- State of New York delegation (5 Bureau of Rolls, 140-145, 190, 191, 311.)


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Re: Reform or Revolution? [Re: Evolving]
    #2832069 - 06/26/04 11:09 PM (19 years, 9 months ago)

Wow, I must have missed all of this before, we had to unite like we are today to stop civil wars, however we gave up the founding fathers' idea to share a similar constitution while the rest remains on a state to state basis. Its troubling that the nation we are today has many problems just because we work as a whole on most every topic, instead of the flexibility that we once had to thrive in the best interests.

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Re: Reform or Revolution? [Re: Evolving]
    #2835428 - 06/28/04 02:05 AM (19 years, 8 months ago)

why wasn't the right to secede enumerated in the constitution then? surely it wasn't 'forgotten'.

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