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To: C. Edmund Wright
Thus the phrase “more perfect union” instead of a perfect union.

Reminiscent of Alice and the Mad Hatter:
MH: Would you like some more tea?
Alice: I can't have more tea, I haven't had any yet!
MH: you mean you can't have less; it's easy to have more than nothing.

30 posted on 10/27/2011 6:13:20 AM PDT by stormhill
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To: stormhill
Thus the phrase “more perfect union” instead of a perfect union.

I read a book by a progressive professor (forget his name) titled "On What the Constitution Really Means". He, and the people destroying the Constitution in the courts, begin the decimation of the Constitution with the words "More Perfect Union". They theorized and apparently courts have bought into that what we view as perfect must be evolving since we have more experience and history every day, the framers must have known this and that is the very reason they wrote "more Perfect". This sets up the entire evolving Constitution theory.

He ignores the very real and plausible reason for the words "more perfect" being placed in the preamble probably being they were in fact replacing the "less perfect" Articles of Confederation.

35 posted on 10/27/2011 6:44:34 AM PDT by BillGunn (Bill Gunn for Congress district one rep. Massachusetts)
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