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To: GingisK; All
As you know, The Constitution is a living Document and it wasn't designed to be a suicide pact, It can be ammended and it's still intact. Relax....

Now you all have fun, I'm taking my Grandkids to Chuckie Cheeses, Have a great Holiday weekend

1,096 posted on 08/30/2002 2:19:15 PM PDT by MJY1288
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To: MJY1288
As you know, The Constitution is a living Document..

Ah, the actual mark of a liberal. A "conservative" seeks to conserve what is currently in place, the Constitution in particular. Contrast your statement with:

"Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction." --Thomas Jefferson to Wilson Nicholas, 1803.

Into which category do you fall?

"Where a constitution, like ours, wears a mixed aspect of monarchy and republicanism, its citizens will naturally divide into two classes of sentiment, according as their tone of body or mind, their habits, connections and callings, induce them to wish to strengthen either the monarchical or the republican features of the constitution. Some will consider it as an elective monarchy, which had better be made hereditary, and therefore endeavor to lead towards that all the forms and principles of its administration. Others will view it as an energetic republic, turning in all its points on the pivot of free and frequent elections." --Thomas Jefferson to James Sullivan, 1797.

1,103 posted on 08/30/2002 2:29:33 PM PDT by GingisK
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