Posts here have been in short supply as I have been living life and trying to get a campaign off the ground. But "11 questions to see if Libertarians are hypocrites" by R. J. Eskrow, picked up at Salon , was just so freaking lame that I spent half an hour answering them. In the end (but I'll leave it to your judgment), it is not that Libertarians or Libertarian theory looks hypocritical, but that the best that can be said for Mr. Eskrow is that he doesn't have the faintest clue what he's talking about. That's ok, because even ill-informed attacks by people like this make an important point: Libertarian ideas (as opposed to Conservative ideas, which are completely different) are making a comeback as the dynamic counterpoint to "politics as usual," and so every hack you can imagine must be dragged out to refute them. Ergo: Mr. Eskrow's 11 questions, with answers: 1. Are unions, political parties, elections, and ...
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The Constitution was officially considered to be adopted on June 21, 1788 when the 9th state, New Hampshire, ratified it. Virginia and New York, the 10th & 11th states ratified on June 25 and July 26, 1788.
Many of the States requested a Bill of Rights be added when they ratified, but North Carolina and Rhode Island actually refused to ratify the Constitution or participate in the new government until after Congress agreed to adopt one, which they passed on Sept 25, 1789. North Carolina ratified on November 21, 1789, and Rhode Island did on May 29, 1790.
The 3rd-12th amendments in Congress' proposed Bill of Rights were ratified by the several States on Dec 15, 1791, the 2nd of them was ratified 202 years later on May 7, 1992.
My next article is due to be published this Sunday.
BTW, my "term" is up in February ... you might want to consider applying in order to keep the trend going !