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A handful of men that founded the country and the documents we live by yes. And it IS a social contract: it's a legal document the points of which are continuously recognized all over the country. The reason you don't take my argument seriously is because you can't beat it.
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist
MisterVeritis (10-01-2019)
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist
MisterVeritis (10-01-2019)
Social contract theory was invented by a theorist, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and argued by Hobbes and Locke and others, and they all tied it to natural rights as I explained earlier. The Declaration is at least partly based on the Enlightenment idea, but the Constitution doesn't codify a ascoail contract, it codifies the structure and function of a government.
Spooner was a theorist who rejected social contract theory. It was, after all, a human construct, a fiction.
Interesting that you theorize about social contracts but criticize other theorists.
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
MisterVeritis (10-01-2019)