Reply to a comment  Reply to this comment  B_Richardson writes:
Originally the term Republican refereed to those who opposed the
claim of European royal family’s divine right to govern and
their heredity right to the throne (seat of political power.)
The TEA Party claims we should return to the original
constitution and that no one has or has had the right to change
the constitution yet the man who’s writings framed the American
Constitution proclaimed in the “Right’s of Man” that no
generation had the right to rule from the grave and that every
new generation had the right to change the law to adjust to
changing circumstances.  “Any attempt by one generation to bind
the next-to rule from the grave-was the moral and political
equivalent of despotism. Kings and members of the Parliament had
no authority to bind anyone except themselves.” 200th
Anniversary Edition “Common Sense, Rights of Man and other
essential writings of Thomas Paine, Forward page XV  From Thomas
Paine’s “Rights of Man: Being an answer to