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To: Former Dodger

Fingerprinting and photography weren't part of the IDs of the 18th Century, but gunpowder and personally owned cannons were. Hmmm...sounds like they were willing to live with our Constitution, even with lesser ID than today, and with weapons of quite-a-bit-of-destruction. You see, it was the oppressive British who tried to take away the cannons and gunpowder, and the Constitution/BOR was written under the feeling that was a bad idea.


768 posted on 01/03/2005 11:08:22 AM PST by Gondring (They can have my Bill of Rights when they pry it from my cold, dead hands!)
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To: Gondring

You've just "removed all doubt." (see Abraham Lincoln)


770 posted on 01/03/2005 11:13:20 AM PST by Former Dodger ("A liberal is a man who leaves the room when the fight starts." Heywood Broun)
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