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To: dennisw
It was in the contemplation of these truths that the fathers made their declaration and adopted their Constitution. It was to establish a free government, which must not be permitted to degenerate into the unrestrained authority of a mere majority or the unbridled weight of a mere influential few.

Oops. Oh well, something better will rise from the ashes of the American Republic, right?

5 posted on 03/01/2013 3:34:42 PM PST by Jacquerie ("How few were left who had seen the republic!" - Tacitus, The Annals)
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To: Jacquerie
something better will rise from the ashes of the American Republic, right?

No.

"the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science."

8 posted on 03/01/2013 4:43:49 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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