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    Abolishing the established institutions built by our fore... — Carmelics
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    Abolishing the established institutions built by our forefathers would leave us nothing to build upon and force us to create ex nihilo.

    Democracy & GovernanceSocial Contract
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    • 1.A state is the product of the history of its people and the experience of many generations.
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    • 2.Each generation lays down the foundations on which another must build.
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    • 3.What our forefathers built grew out of the unique circumstances of the country and has gradually adapted to them.
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    • 1.Locke and Paine argued that no generation can bind subsequent ones, as the living cannot be obligated by the dead's institutional choices.
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    • 2.If each generation has equal sovereign authority, abolishing inherited institutions is not creation ex nihilo but legitimate re-founding on present consent.
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    • 1.Hegel's dialectic shows that rational institutions emerge through negation of existing structures, not mere preservation — destruction is a necessary moment of development.
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    • 2.The ex nihilo premise falsely assumes the only alternative to inherited institutions is a void, ignoring that reason, natural law, and deliberative capacity provide independent foundations for reconstruction.
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    A central pillar of Rehberg's conservatism was his defense of tradition. The basis for that defense was, again, his critique of reason. Since reason by itself cannot determine the specific form of a constitution, it never lays down a mandate to abolish the established institutions of a country, and so it is permissible for the statesman to follow tradition. Sometimes, Rehberg argued, it is not only permissable but also obligatory for the statesman to respect the traditions and established ins
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