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6/3/26

    Nearing our 250th Declaration of Independence celebration, some words/thoughts by some of our colonial Fighters for Independence/Constitutional-Founders & Framers that didn’t make it into our Constitution; *plus, the words of possibly the most forward thinking scientist; **and the words/thoughts of one retired (2006) Supreme Court judge (who died in 2023):

    “Government is, or ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community…when any government shall be found inadequate or contrary to these purposes, a majority of the community hath an indubitable, inalienable, and indefeasible right to reform, alter, or abolish it, in such manner as shall be judged most conducive to the public weal.” George Mason 

    “That there be prefixed to the Constitution a declaration, that all power is originallyvested in, and consequently derived from the people.” James Madison

    “The means of defense against foreign danger, have been always the instrumentsof tyranny at home…the armed forces kept under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people.” James Madison

    “…this (new government under the Constitution) is likely to be well administered for a course of years; and as other forms have done before, the people, being incapable of any other mode, will become so corrupted as to need authoritarian rule, such that, this Government will end in Despotism!” Benjamin Franklin

    “As Nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need for masters. Only a virtuous people are capable of Liberty.” Benjamin Franklin

    *”The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.” Albert Einstein 

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