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Wednesday, May 04, 2005
America's purpose... Cicero and Verbum Ipsum are hashing it out.
I like this formulation:... governments exist primarily to protect the lives, liberty, and property of their citizens. That is the purpose for which they are established.... Amen.
Cicero doesn't see things quite the same way.
There's a shorter formulation, though: "Governments exist to protect our free will and that which we derive from the exercise of our dominion."
Not sure what Cicero would take from that formulation.
posted by gbarto at 4:36 PM
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