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To: robertpaulsen
Last time: If the Founders meant eveyone, the used the phrase "all persons".

"The people", the whole people" "the people at large", "freemen" and "freeholders" all referred to something else.

Evidence for this claim?

103 posted on 03/20/2008 3:30:31 PM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: Gondring
"Evidence for this claim?"

It was the language they used at the time.

106 posted on 03/21/2008 7:17:25 AM PDT by robertpaulsen
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