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Old 07-15-2008, 03:20 PM   #70
Radar
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Join Date: Dec 2002
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Libertarianism is not anarchy and it doesn't promote anarchy. Libertarians believe in having a government and want to keep it as small as possible. The founding fathers fit this perfectly. They founders were indeed libertarians. If you think otherwise, it only proves your own historical and political ignorance.

They created a constitution of laws, and those laws were made to place strict limits on the powers of the federal government. The federal government is given very limited and specific powers and everything it does beyond those specific and limited powers that are listed in the Constitution is unconstitutional and an attack on our freedom. Allowing the government to do anything other than those specific and limited things (even for a good reason) is a slap in the face of our libertarian founders and an attack on liberty itself and it opens the door for others to violate the Constitution for bad reasons.

Unlike you, I actually do get the big picture and unlike you, I actually understand the Constitution and the principles that guided our founders when they created it.

The founders wanted the fed to be very small and virtually invisible to regular people with the states having the vast majority of the legislative powers and 100% of law enforcement powers. They wanted people to remember that the people hold the power, not the government.
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