To: Kaslin
"Levin quotes Tocqueville reflecting on the Constitutional Convention of 1776"
Wasn't the Constitutional Convention in 1787?
29 posted on
08/14/2013 1:21:38 PM PDT by
ReleaseTheHounds
("The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
To: ReleaseTheHounds
Yes. One more sentence that made me cringe.
30 posted on
08/14/2013 1:27:33 PM PDT by
Publius
(And so, night falls on civilization.)
To: ReleaseTheHounds
It was in 1787, but he must be thinking about the Annapolis Convention of 1786 to send delegates.
Constitutional Convention
Or rather Tocqueville must have been thinking about the Annapolis convention
37 posted on
08/14/2013 5:22:42 PM PDT by
Kaslin
(He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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