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To: VaBarrister
who I'm sure we can all agree are better representatives of the people than Congress

No, sorry, I don't agree. Congress is elected by the citizenry every two years. If they are not 'representative' of the will of the people, then the people have no one but themselves to blame.

88 posted on 03/30/2005 9:54:23 AM PST by malakhi
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To: malakhi

I was only talking about this in terms of who created the Constitution and that it was the people through the constitutional conventions and not Congress. Let us not forget that the constitution should trump any current will of the people that is not consistent with it. But, as a general matter, I do think state legislatures are more closely connected to the will of the people.


91 posted on 03/30/2005 9:57:53 AM PST by VaBarrister
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