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Answering Constitutional questions - Sentinel & Enterprise

Constitutional scholars spend countless hours trying to decipher the meaning of a 221-year-old document written by men who, while demonstrably among the more advanced political thinkers of their day, could ...

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May 9, 2008
 
Agreed. Lets keep using oil instead OK, thanks for letting us know there are no other choices. How do you get to be so smart?

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May 9, 2008
 
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Here we are again faced with the ambiguities and lack of prescience of the Constitution's authors, who probably didn't anticipate that American soldiers and sailors would be housed with their wives in military complexes all over the world.
The Constitution's Authors would not have envisioned American soldiers stationed long term and worldwide for a good reason.

Many Founders were against the very idea of a standing army in a time of peace. This offers some explanation for the 2nd amendment as well, as it was a common sentiment that a standing army itself in peacetime presents a threat to liberty.

Another outlook common to the Founders was the necessity to avoid "foreign entanglements". This was another reason that it would seem bizarre to them that we would have troops stationed with their entire families overseas.
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