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Old 10-29-2007, 05:44 PM
mwalsh2020 mwalsh2020 is offline
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Default Re: (Re)Writing a New Constitution

this OP was either a massive level (unlikely) or well-intentioned but very poorly executed. Fortunately, some good dialog on what our country should or should not be has resulted from it.

In response to the OP asking what type of ideology he is describing... it seems to me that he is ironically employing a powerful state apparatus in order to ensure that a powerful state apparatus never emerges. Unfortunately, its not the sort of delightful paradox that works. If you want the government to protect the free market, you simply do not encroach on the free market.

Milton Friedman, in his book Free to Choose, said that if he had to choose between a government monopoly or a private monopoly he'd choose the private one, and he actually questioned if such a thing could really exist, as in a free market, there will always be competition.
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