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Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Mon, 11 Dec 2000 13:00:00 GMT
I'm sick today. Likely to spend most of the day horizontal. My vertical time will be devoted to paying work. More links tomorrow, "in sha' allah".

Jeremy Sapienza at LewRockwell.com - No More Parchment Worship! Following in the giant footsteps of Lysander Spooner, Mr. Sapienza reminds us that the consitution has no legal binding on any of us. A contract is only valid if it has a start and end date and is signed by all parties. I don't know about you, but I don't remember signing any contract with any government.

I'm sick of hearing debates about the Constitution! It protects us from government abuse, it's a social contract, it's a living document, it's not a living document...

Who cares? It's a set of conduct forced on Americans by fiat, no different from any other. It's simply a matter of degree. Is a government "controlled" by a document such as our Constitution better than one based on Communist ideology? Sure, no debate. But they are similar still because they are both governments; they are both institutionalized force. The very concept of a controlling document, a set of laws to be foisted upon a people in a geographic area by an empowered elite, is so obscene to me that I can see no moral difference between the basis of one government or another. The governments of both Cuba and the United States are equally illegitimate in my eyes.

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