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Feb-12
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Sound familiar? Which one of the founding fathers actually wrote this? (no googling).

“If a long train of abuses, prevarications, and artifices, all tending the same way, make the design (to oppress) visible to the people, and they cannot but feel, what they lie under, and see, whither they are going; ‘tis not to be wondered, that they should then rouze themselves, and endeavor to put the rule into such hands, which may secure to them the ends for which government was first erected.”

Answer will surprise you!

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  1. Flashy says:

     

    The answer is: none.  
    John Locke penned those words so similar to that found in The Declaration of Independence roughly 100 years before The Declaration was penned in the second treatise of Two Treatises of Government: In the Former, The False Principles and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, And His Followers, are Detected and Overthrown. The Latter is an Essay concerning The True Original, Extent, and End of Civil-Government.


  2. Roadkill says:

    What I find most surprising, Flashy, is that you think John Locke was a founding father.

  3. Flashy says:

    Roady, did you actually read the answer? Next time I pose a question, I’ll dumb it down to the 4th grade level so that even you will understand.

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