RE: A Fundamental Question

[Dana Briggs <fambriggs@earthlink.net>]

I would suggest that one of the 'principles' of living in a
nation-state as it is envisioned as this time is a social contract
(explicitly identified in our Constitution as an example). This
does not imply it is or should remain static. Nation-states evolve
or devolve over time just as people and other organisms do. We have
three options: 

   1) live within the contract as currently understood,
   2) modify the contract as circumstances warrant, or 
   3) move to another nation-state which better coincides with personal
      beliefs and ideals (in the 'marketplace' of two hundred plus
      nations, there should be one or more which meets our criteria).
      I choose option 2 at this point.