Quote:None of that contradicts a federal government with the role of protecting property and life. But to answer the direct question, yes and no. Anyone who says the founding fathers had it ALL figured out for all of time is being naive at best. They didn't nor could they be expected to see what the nation would become, and how big government would become. Some of them warned about the dangers (Jefferson specifically) but I don't believe in a "dead" constitution. 

 

Back to the Preamble, all of that is covered by the protection of property and life. Your property is your possessions, your thoughts, your speech, your earnings, your body, your family, your home and so on. Property isn't referring to only your address or even simply physical things, your intellectual property (speech, thoughts, expression, media) is also protected. The defense of the nation is the defense of the lives of it's citizens. 

 

If you are going to have that loose a definition of "property and life," then I don't think you're a Libertarian so much as a moderate with some libertarian leanings.   Or maybe just moderately libertarian.  Which is what I think I am, but it's all a matter of degree.   I probably want a little more government than you do.  

 

I don't think you and I have enough of a difference on ideology to have an argument.   We could argue over the specifics, but that's about it.  

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