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   7/21/09

   Agit8r

   "The Congress and the can states institute the amendment process"
   
   I suggest you amend your blog

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      7/22/09

      ConservativeOne

      Thanks, nice catch. I hate updating blog with blackberry
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   7/22/09

   Agit8r

   I'm wondering what you think of the following statement:
   
   "It may well be asked whether the name really matters so much. In a country like the United States, which on the whole has free institutions and where, therefore, the defense of the existing is often a defense of freedom, it might not make so much difference if the defenders of freedom call themselves conservatives, although even here the association with the conservatives by disposition will often be embarrassing. Even when men approve of the same arrangements, it must be asked whether they approve of them because they exist or because they are desirable in themselves. The common resistance to the collectivist tide should not be allowed to obscure the fact that the belief in integral freedom is based on an essentially forward-looking attitude and not on any nostalgic longing for the past or a romantic admiration for what has been."
   
   -- F. A. Hayek; from "Why I Am Not a Conservative"
   
   Hayek was one of the founders of the modern libertrian movement, though he was not as radically minarchististic as the current party orthodoxy. Below is a link to the full text of the essay quoted above
   
   www.fahayek.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=46

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