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To: Skylab

And Jeffersonianism was unfortunately wiped from this nation of states after 1865. The fact is the Constitution goes neither way on the issue. But human nature would assume the representation of the time would bring life experiences or feeling into passage of federal legislation


189 posted on 12/12/2005 11:14:15 AM PST by billbears (Deo Vindice)
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To: billbears
"... And Jeffersonianism was unfortunately wiped from this nation of states after 1865."

I don't think I would have been very good as a fiddle-playing citizen farmer, so I'm happy that instead we have Federalism based upon Hamiltonian economic principles.

That's what made America what we are today. Jeffersonian principles would have made us into one big Guatemala.

222 posted on 12/12/2005 11:19:05 AM PST by The KG9 Kid (Semper Fi!)
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