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To: Irenic

The states ceded the prime part of their power with the 17th Amendment nearly a century ago. They gave up being inside the process and the prediction of Lincoln was essentially complete when he remarked about “saving the Union only to sacrifice the Republic.”


53 posted on 12/05/2013 8:51:10 AM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: T-Bird45

Yep.

I hope Saturday goes well and the wheels of the states start to turn again.


55 posted on 12/05/2013 8:55:47 AM PST by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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