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To: HairOfTheDog; Corin Stormhands
Hello Hair, good morning. Yeah, Corin can put this one on his home page, I guess.

I just wish that the choices for answers didn't mostly seem so small minded, our founding fathers were very much not small minded.

Jefferson was an interesting character. I have long been an admirer, having grown up in the same neighborhood as he did, people around there refer to him as if he was still alive. 'Course lots of them are descendents of folks that were around in those days.

I reckon Jefferson to have been the original "limited government" guy in America. Though I have read that he was converted to rationalism while in France. I mean the rationalism that led to socialism, which is the opposite of limited government. I need to research this a little more.
8 posted on 11/24/2002 7:57:30 AM PST by Sam Cree
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To: Sam Cree
Yeah... It was not a philosophical test... I have no idea what the answers are based on. Probably random! Maybe they guess that when Thomas Jefferson was angry, he would "Stomping out of the room in a huff, followed by brooding. Lots of brooding." Heh.
9 posted on 11/24/2002 8:05:39 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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