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To: Mike Bates
Um.. not to labor on a fine point - putthe Founding Fathers were not conservatives or at least I should say did not use that word for themselves - as tehy did not wish to conserve royal govt. The term in vogue at that time was of course radical and liberal for them. Of course the 1776 meanings for what a conservative and liberal is have zero to do with the modern American meaning of the words.
2 posted on
06/28/2004 1:15:19 PM PDT by
Destro
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To: Mike Bates
4 posted on
06/28/2004 1:36:06 PM PDT by
AgThorn
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To: Mike Bates
LOL! My favorite:
The part I don’t like is where you write about the king erecting a multitude of new offices and sending out swarms of officers to harass our people. That sounds uncomfortably like a criticism of regulatory agencies.
Sure does!
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06/28/2004 2:25:03 PM PDT by
maryz
To: Mike Bates
If liberals were in Philadelphia in 1776 They were in New York and sundry other cities entertaining British troops.
To: Mike Bates
14 posted on
06/28/2004 8:51:18 PM PDT by
Ciexyz
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To: Mike Bates
15 posted on
06/28/2004 8:53:37 PM PDT by
Fiddlstix
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To: Mike Bates
We would be still under British rule.
16 posted on
06/28/2004 8:56:39 PM PDT by
sport
To: Mike Bates
Liberals were in Philadelphia in 1776.
They were called Tories back then.......
21 posted on
06/29/2004 7:05:40 AM PDT by
Badeye
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