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Whether you like Big Macs isn't relevant to anything. Noe one cares what you like. The bottom line is that raising the minimum wage will cause unemployment among the people who can least afford it.
The preamble doesn't mention any so-called "social contract." Furthermore, the preamble is just propaganda. It has no relevance to anything tangible.
Even if the Founding Fathers believed in something called a "social contract," that wouldn't prove it actually exists.
Without proof, any claims about the "social contract" are just so much eye-wash.
Again, the "social contract" they envisioned was not what people call it today.
REALLY? So we can infer the "Arms" mentioned in the Second Amendment and the "Arms" available to citizens today are not what James Madison and George Mason envisioned.
Jay said we bind together to preserve rights. That is it.
He didn't say we are responsible to feed each other.
Are you suggesting John Jay wrote the Preamble? Evidence and wherein he said what you attribute to him, please. I learned Gouverneur Morris, a founding father and signer of both the Article of Confederation and the Constitution wrote the Preamble.
Read Federalist #2.
Nothing is more certain than the indispensable necessity of government, and it is equally undeniable, that whenever and however it is instituted, the people must cede to it some of their natural rights in order to vest it with requisite powers.
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This country and this people seem to have been made for each other, and it appears as if it was the design of Providence, that an inheritance so proper and convenient for a band of brethren, united to each other by the strongest ties, should never be split into a number of unsocial, jealous, and alien sovereignties.
Similar sentiments have hitherto prevailed among all orders and denominations of men among us. To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection. As a nation we have made peace and war; as a nation we have vanquished our common enemies; as a nation we have formed alliances, and made treaties, and entered into various compacts and conventions with foreign states.
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This intelligent people perceived and regretted these defects. Still continuing no less attached to union than enamored of liberty, they observed the danger which immediately threatened the former and more remotely the latter; and being pursuaded that ample security for both could only be found in a national government more wisely framed, they as with one voice, convened the late convention at Philadelphia, to take that important subject under consideration.