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Tuesday, December 14, 2004Cicero looks at the vision of Ron Paul, libertarian, as it relates to nation building, the Constitution and more. Cicero's most important point:Well, surely the truth is that America today, if it were asked to adopt a constitution and could somehow agree on one, would certainly not agree on anything like either the original written document, nor that plus the first 10 amendments, nor that plus the whole string of them.He is right, of course. Which is unfortunate for us. On the up side, we do have our good old Constitution in place, however much we ignore it. And for this, we ought to be thankful. Much of Europe has newer, more relevant constitutions in place. They're generally atrocious. What has made our Constitution last is that it doesn't contain a specific enumeration of the extent of duck hunting rights, mandatory minimum hospital stays or the maximum length of gummi worms (maybe I'm exaggerating how ridiculous they get, but not by that much). As such, we have a fairly short document that spells out what government is about, not how the society it's in is supposed to work. Which is why the finger-in-everyone's-pudding types have messed up all the modern constitutions. All hail to ours, so outdated it's ever relevant. 
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