Comments on: Optimism On The Fourth Of July http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/07/03/optimism-on-the-fourth-of-july/ Life. Liberty. Property. Defending individual freedom and liberty, one post at a time. Wed, 22 May 2013 18:26:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Eric http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/07/03/optimism-on-the-fourth-of-july/#comment-1470 Eric Wed, 05 Jul 2006 18:51:50 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/07/03/optimism-on-the-fourth-of-july/#comment-1470 VRB, I understand, at least intellectually. But I still think it’s true that what was created was better than what existed. More importantly, what was created set the stage for the eventual undoing of the evil done to those held in slavery. Just as important, it seems likely that without the fateful compromise an American Republic would not have been created and all of the later good it did, including the Civil War, Emancipation and the Civil Rights movement would not have come about in the fashion that they did.

]]> By: VRB http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/07/03/optimism-on-the-fourth-of-july/#comment-1469 VRB Wed, 05 Jul 2006 17:38:34 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/07/03/optimism-on-the-fourth-of-july/#comment-1469 That three fifths was generous, because at that time there were people that did not think we were at all human. That is a matter of time, because until there was enough scientific evidence to prove otherwise; there were citizens that thought we were some type of ape. I have met those people.

]]> By: IndianCowboy http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/07/03/optimism-on-the-fourth-of-july/#comment-1467 IndianCowboy Wed, 05 Jul 2006 15:12:51 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/07/03/optimism-on-the-fourth-of-july/#comment-1467 thanks Brad.

Was trying to figure out how to say it.

]]> By: Brad Warbiany http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/07/03/optimism-on-the-fourth-of-july/#comment-1464 Brad Warbiany Wed, 05 Jul 2006 14:05:27 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/07/03/optimism-on-the-fourth-of-july/#comment-1464 The Constitution doesn’t need to “change with the times”. The Constitution only needs to change when it is wrong.

As I pointed out in my post on the Founding Fathers, they weren’t perfect, and they understood they weren’t perfect. They knew that they were creating the best Constitution they could at the time (and I would point out that there were some, like Patrick Henry, who didn’t even think we should have this Constitution at all), but understood that there might need to be changes.

As an example, the three-fifths compromise. I think they all knew that this was wrong when they wrote it. To declare one group of people only worth three-fifths of a human when apportioning for representation is clearly wrong. The fact that it’s wrong doesn’t “change with the times”, but the Constitution had to be amended to fix that wrong.

]]> By: VRB http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/07/03/optimism-on-the-fourth-of-july/#comment-1461 VRB Wed, 05 Jul 2006 03:40:17 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/07/03/optimism-on-the-fourth-of-july/#comment-1461 If the Constitution to remained unchanged, why the ability to admend it. Your view seems extremely static. If America were to survive for another five centuries, do you think the society or enviroment will stay static? For small hunter gatherer societies, individualism would have thwarted their survival. The Bible or Buddha’s word requires faith, goverment requires the rational.

]]> By: The Liberty Papers»Blog Archive » July 4, 1776 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/07/03/optimism-on-the-fourth-of-july/#comment-1450 The Liberty Papers»Blog Archive » July 4, 1776 Tue, 04 Jul 2006 12:21:23 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/07/03/optimism-on-the-fourth-of-july/#comment-1450 [...] Ryan: Inspiring! I like it, especially the comment about the “progressive” movement being reactionary. [...]

]]> By: Below The Beltway http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/07/03/optimism-on-the-fourth-of-july/#comment-1449 Below The Beltway Tue, 04 Jul 2006 12:18:45 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/07/03/optimism-on-the-fourth-of-july/#comment-1449 July 4, 1776

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]]> By: Ryan http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/07/03/optimism-on-the-fourth-of-july/#comment-1448 Ryan Tue, 04 Jul 2006 06:59:28 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/07/03/optimism-on-the-fourth-of-july/#comment-1448 Inspiring! I like it, especially the comment about the “progressive” movement being reactionary.

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