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Originally Posted by Havoc Wreaker
Not so, because your opinion/interpretation has absolutely no support from facts or evidence, as T-B keeps trying to explain to you. Please provide any quote or any writing from any Founder that states they believe "a standing army is necessary to provide for the common defense" and that it should remain permanent and replace the state militias.
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Thanks for the assist. And that is the issue.
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There's no argument there. The Founders were opposed to a standing army, and that is a rock solid fact. Their quotes and writings clearly support this. If you have any quotes or writings to the contrary, please post them. An opinion isn't proof of anything.
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Exactly, an opinion isn't proof of anything.
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They did not believe in a "living" Constitution as the modern judiciary interprets it. They believed that changes should be made possible, but not that such changes could ever reverse or destroy the original intent. The only original intent that could rationally be altered would be errors which deprived people of life, liberty or unalienable rights - such as slavery. Any changes argued from the standpoint of extending unalienable rights under Natural Law to those who may have been deprived of such when the Constitution was originally ratified, would be supported from the Founders core beliefs.
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Well said.