09-11-2005, 12:50 PM
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Location: Maryland
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Originally Posted by gekkogecko
...the basic function of government is to keep the rich and/or powerful in their positions of wealth & power...
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gekkogecko,
Not everyone would agree with you.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal…
…That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…
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