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dansolo

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6. Appeal to authority

Reply to brush (Reply #1)

Wed Oct 14, 2020, 06:33 AM

Oct 2020

"Originalists" will claim that they alone know the true intentions of the Founding Fathers, but they repeatedly promote ideas that are contradicted by the writings of the very same people, written at the time the Constitution was ratified.

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Mayor Lori Lightfoot: The Constitution didn't even recognize me as a human being... [View all] Nevilledog Oct 2020 OP

Originalists are lazy thinking racists who want things how they were... brush Oct 2020 #1

Appeal to authority dansolo Oct 2020 #6

Right. chriscan64 Oct 2020 #8

We need more of this, Original thinking RANDYWILDMAN Oct 2020 #2

Amazing....wonder what she imagines for her kids in that kind of constricted world? Thekaspervote Oct 2020 #3

Don't the women of her sect, People of Praise, obey the men in their lives? brush Oct 2020 #7

Not a theory I want my daughter to follow... RANDYWILDMAN Oct 2020 #9

Yep, her rulings don't affect her person. Those outside the privileged need not apply. brush Oct 2020 #11

K&R Solly Mack Oct 2020 #4

kick mucifer Oct 2020 #5

K&R for visibility. crickets Oct 2020 #10