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From: hawk@oliven.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Guns and the Constitution
Message-ID: <328@oliven.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 26-Jul-84 15:41:56 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 26 15:41:56 1984
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>As for "the people who framed the constitution had no love for government",
>well, it's just not true. 

This just isn't true.

>Jefferson's signature isn't on the Constitution,
>so he's a poor choice of Founding Father for interpreting it.  Hamilton,
>Madison, and John Jay are better choices, as the authors of the Federalist
>Papers.  In these letters, they repeatedly state that the danger from
>anarchy is greater than the danger from tyranny.  The whole series of papers
>is a justification for why the states should join in one federation, rather
>than be more loosely bound, and hence less governed.  The Founding Fathers
>hated tyranny of all kinds, but recognized the need for government, and did
>not believe that the latter implied the former.

Support of the central government and a recognition for its need is not the
same as love for it.  A central goverment was the lesser evil.  



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   hawk                                     (Rick Hawkins @ Olivetti ATC)
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