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To: RhoTheta

It all depends on what you mean by government. (Forgive me while I wax Clintonesque.)

The Barbary Pirates weren't a government. They were more like your franchise example, and our President used his war powers in that situation.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/jefferson_papers/mtjprece.html


66 posted on 12/21/2005 9:37:08 AM PST by Palladin (Merry Christmas! God bless us, every one!)
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To: Palladin

bttt


67 posted on 12/21/2005 10:17:21 PM PST by Palladin (Merry Christmas! God bless us, every one!)
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