BLAZEr Posted October 27, 2004 Share Posted October 27, 2004 I say, firebomb the government . . . and Candada . . . Canada stinks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qfnol31 Posted October 27, 2004 Share Posted October 27, 2004 LoL, our government can't be that far from Catholicism. It was founded on Natural Law. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
God Conquers Posted October 27, 2004 Share Posted October 27, 2004 [quote]Canada stinks![/quote] I swear it was a duck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest T-Bone Posted October 27, 2004 Share Posted October 27, 2004 [quote]I think the term "Separation of Church and State" was in the Federalist Papers, at any rate it was in a document by the forefathers. So that it's not in the Bill of Rights is a pretty moot point.[/quote] Of course, the Federalist Papers are not legal documents, anymore than are the Articles of Confederation. Citing the Federalist Papers is the moot point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balthazor Posted October 27, 2004 Share Posted October 27, 2004 Actually the federalist papers and other papers and documents written by the founding fathers ARE important. While they are not the documents by which we run our government by they are important because even though through the Bill of Rights and the Constitution we have the facts, what is to be established, what is restricted, what is the law....we seem to have different ways of interpreting these facts. Just ask ten different people what the right to bear arms means...you'll soon find out that everyone has their own take on what it meant. With the federlist papers we have a chance to see how the founding fathers thought, how they interpreted things,....in other words we have a better idea of their intent. Granted that of course I too think that citing the Articles of Confderation would be kinda silly, since they were government documents that were thrown out. It is the same principle citing Church Fathers to figure out doctrine, and how the church should opperate. It is not the gospel, but it gives us valuable insight into the original intent of what was written. Publius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest T-Bone Posted October 27, 2004 Share Posted October 27, 2004 Going back to the Federalist Papers for an idea of the inent of the Founding Fathers is a good idea. But, they are not articles of LAW. This is a country founded on LAW. The Federalist Papers were not universally agrred upon by the Found Fathers, they were never intended by some to be the basis for LAW. The Constitution is the LAW, and it is what the other LAWS are based on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balthazor Posted October 27, 2004 Share Posted October 27, 2004 I never said that the federalist papers were the law...I am only trying to point out their intrinsic value. It wasn;t really a debate point. As I said before, though the Federalist papers are not the LAW they can provide clues as to how we should or could Interpret the LAW. I am sorry if you missunderstood my point... I will try to be more clear in the future.. Balthazor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iacobus Posted October 27, 2004 Share Posted October 27, 2004 [quote name='Balthazor' date='Oct 27 2004, 03:54 PM'] I never said that the federalist papers were the law...I am only trying to point out their intrinsic value. It wasn;t really a debate point. As I said before, though the Federalist papers are not the LAW they can provide clues as to how we should or could Interpret the LAW. I am sorry if you missunderstood my point... I will try to be more clear in the future.. Balthazor [/quote] Think of them as the footnotes in your Bible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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