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To: Ditto

You really are starting to sound like some of the Black Nationalists. Did some Slave really invent a flying machine 10,000 years ago only to be ripped off by the Wright Brothers?

You deny the existence of the Golden Bull, which any elementary school student of European History would surely know

Silly boy, unschooled in history. It was before the Habsburgs in Hungary. In case you don't know, they were Austrian.

98 posted on 10/08/2001 4:49:37 PM PDT by Zviadist
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To: Zviadist
You deny the existence of the Golden Bull, which any elementary school student of European History would surely know

I deny its relevance to anything we are discussing. What in the hell does the method of selecting the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and the rights that emperor has, have to do with American or contemporary European democracy. Maybe it was a big point in European History in leaving the feudal age and developing the nation-state in Central Europe, but of no significant in terms of bringing democracy to the world stage. Only princes and bishops had a say. At least the Magna Carta acknowledged that even commoners may have some rights. The Golden Bull did not. It was every bit as democratic as the rules whereby the Central Committee of the Communist Party selected its Chairman. And if was such a great system, why did it degrade back into heraldic empires that only ended in Central and Eastern Europe with World War.

Can you comprehend the importance of what happened in Philadelphia 225 years ago when for the first time in history, we eliminated monarchy and put citizens above the state? Probably not. Silly boy.

135 posted on 10/09/2001 7:49:36 AM PDT by Ditto
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