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**DEMassteers** · 11-13-2005, 05:51 AM

I heard another interesting reason why it might seem like the constitution is on the left...because when they wrote it they were going against the more right leaning British government at the time. So there is a lot of freedom for the people in the constitution, which is a leftist idea. Freedom

The Constitution at the time it was written was probably the most liberal document ever written, in that it guaranteed the rights of the individual to live his own life without interference.

What has happened in the meantime is that the left (not liberals in the true sense of the word) has come to represent government control over every aspect of our lives, cradle to grave. It is a return to the government that the Pilgrims sought to escape. It is a bastardization of everything that America represents.

11-13-2005, 05:51 AM	#6
DEMassteers Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 453 Senior Member	I heard another interesting reason why it might seem like the constitution is on the left...because when they wrote it they were going against the more right leaning British government at the time. So there is a lot of freedom for the people in the constitution, which is a leftist idea. Freedom The Constitution at the time it was written was probably the most liberal document ever written, in that it guaranteed the rights of the individual to live his own life without interference. What has happened in the meantime is that the left (not liberals in the true sense of the word) has come to represent government control over every aspect of our lives, cradle to grave. It is a return to the government that the Pilgrims sought to escape. It is a bastardization of everything that America represents.
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