Subject: | Re: I'll Never Read Marx
| Date: | Sat, 26 Jul 2003 16:42:46 -0400
| From: | Ron Allen <rallen2@bellsouth.net>
| Newsgroups: | talk.politics.libertarian,alt.philosophy.debate,alt.philosophy.objectivism,alt.society.anarchy,alt.anarchism
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jmh wrote:
> That doesn't really address the question why the continual userpation
> of individual rights and liberties is the process we've seen from our
> representatives. After all, we can simply vote them away, right?
Ron Allen wrote:
> I believe that the very constitutional foundation of the United
> States, although it was progressive at the time, was, all the same,
> an arrogation of political powers, a commandeering and a usurpation
> of monopoly political authority over and above society.
> What do you mean when talking about voting them away? Are you talking
> about voting representatives out? Or, are you . . .
jmh wrote:
> Yes.
Ron Allen answers:
Then, yes, the citizens can vote representatives out if
they fail to represent them correctly, faithfully, and/or
effectively.
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