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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.