Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ubc-vision.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!ubc-vision!mokhtar From: mokhtar@ubc-vision.UUCP (Farzin Mokhtarian) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: American Foreign Policy: A Clarification of Democracy Message-ID: <44@ubc-vision.UUCP> Date: Sat, 11-Jan-86 22:38:23 EST Article-I.D.: ubc-visi.44 Posted: Sat Jan 11 22:38:23 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jan-86 12:42:36 EST Organization: UBC Computational Vision Lab, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 26 Subject: Re: American Foreign Policy: A Clarification of "Democracy" jmg@sftig.UUCP (J. McGhee) writes: > We can see the intentions of the founding fathers when we read in the > Declaration of Independence: > > "We hold these truths to be self evident: > That all men are created equal, > That they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable > Rights, > That among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of > Happiness. > That to secure these rights, governments are instituted > among men, ***> deriving their just powers from the consent of the > governed <***. Not that I disagree with them but the founding fathers seem to be holding A LOT of things to be self evident! Thanks for the clarification. Farzin Mokhtarian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Remember, he can only enter if he is invited!"