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To: P_A_I
Jefferson had a solution for that also: "I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power." T. Jefferson
33 posted on 03/22/2005 5:27:27 PM PST by AntiBurr ("A generation that ignores history has no past--and no future." --Heinlein)
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To: AntiBurr
Most of them [Americans] are so stupid on constitutional issues that they know not what they do..

27 P_A_I

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Jefferson had a solution for that also: "I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education.

This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power." T. Jefferson
33 AntiBurr







True enough, education could be the answer. But when the whole system is thoroughly corrupted, [by design] who is to 'educate' the sheepie?


How about Amendment XXVIII to our Constituion? (The Supreme Court shall make no law..."
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35 posted on 03/26/2005 9:51:03 AM PST by P_A_I
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