As the conserverati gather in Washington DC for this week’s CPAC conference, a document is floating around that encourages conservatives to return to the constitutional roots. It’s called the Mt. Vernon Statement and it’s signed by the usual cast of…
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Thomas Jefferson On Proposition 8 (sort of)
by Ed Velasquez • • Comments Off
From President Jefferson’s first Inaugural Address (1801), emphasis added: …bear in mind this SACRED principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful MUST be REASONABLE; that the minority possess…

