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dksuddeth · 03-15-2006, 08:51 AM

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Originally Posted by JustJess

Yeah.... 250 years ago. Do you think we should go back to not having plumbing either, since that was the way it was done back then too? Times have changed and are continuing to do so.

Was his comment inane? Absolutely. And I doubt it was serious. If he continues to be an idiot, I imagine Chicago's voters will get him out. Y'know, without shooting him. Because it is, after all, 2006, not the 1700's.

Just because we're 200 years older as a nation does NOT mean that the declaration of independence, bill of rights, constitution, and all others have disapeared.

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.