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To: Roscoe
Once again the puerile copy-master spews! And the world is a more humorous place for his efforts.

Willful ignorance is crippling.

Obviously.

157 posted on 02/01/2003 12:09:25 PM PST by Trailerpark Badass
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To: Trailerpark Badass
...puerile...

An apt description of the juvenile "philosophy" you espouse.

"There never was a government without force. What is the meaning of government? An institution to make people do their duty. A government leaving it to a man to do his duty or not, as he pleases, would be a new species of government, or rather no government at all." -- James Madison

158 posted on 02/01/2003 12:14:13 PM PST by Roscoe
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To: Trailerpark Badass
"It was a general depository of contraband goods. The Parliament found the evil so great, as to render it necessary to wrest it out of the hands of its possessor."

"The honorable gentleman says that it is a government of force. If he means military force, the clause under consideration proves the contrary. There never was a government without force. What is the meaning of government? An institution to make people do their duty. A government leaving it to a man to do his duty or not, as he pleases, would be a new species of government, or rather no government at all."

-- James Madison


159 posted on 02/01/2003 12:28:49 PM PST by Roscoe
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To: Trailerpark Badass
    "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

    -- John Adams


171 posted on 02/01/2003 2:14:09 PM PST by Bonaparte
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