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To: Pelham

Nothing there mentions the infighting that often went on between them and the friendships that were destroyed in giving birth to a nation.

Nothing but flowery words carefully crafted for an official document.

There’s a reason there were federalist AND anti federalist papers.


42 posted on 02/12/2011 7:28:49 PM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: cripplecreek

“Nothing but flowery words carefully crafted for an official document.”

That’s an interesting way to characterize one of the more famous American political letters. For starters it wasn’t an official document of any sort. The Federalist Papers were newspaper articles arguing in favor of ratifying the Constitution.

In Federalist 2 John Jay stresses the common culture and language and heritage of the Americans who fought the Revolution. It’s an original source document that contradicts your assertion of ‘radical diversity’ among that generation.

“Nothing there mentions the infighting that often went on between them and the friendships that were destroyed in giving birth to a nation.”

There’s no reason for Jay to have spoken of infighting and broken friendships in his argument for ratification, neither of which would support your diversity argument in any case.


48 posted on 02/12/2011 8:09:40 PM PST by Pelham (Islam, for the humorless life)
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