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    It is not the case that Abolishing the established institutions built by our forefathers would leave us nothing to build upon and force us to create ex nihilo.

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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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    • 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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