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To: sangrila

You sure there weren't any farmers also? Bankers, teachers?


25 posted on 01/31/2006 3:33:58 AM PST by mlc9852
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To: mlc9852

My list wasn't all-inclusive. I should have put businessmen on there to encompass those professions, and ministers were like teachers in many ways back then. Calling Jefferson or Madison "farmers" is a bit of an understatement though. They owned enormous plantations and were extremely wealthy. My point was that I think it is kind of a myth that the country was founded by ordinary citizens. It was founded by the elites of that society. They were citizens, but not ordinary citizens.


27 posted on 01/31/2006 3:49:14 AM PST by sangrila
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