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To: jackbob
Talk of restoring that which has not existed during the life time of the majority of adult citizens, seems a bit decrepit.


thanks for clarifying your opinion about my decrepit questions!
8 posted on 03/13/2004 4:40:56 PM PST by Robert_Paulson2 (smaller government? you gotta be kidding!)
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To: Robert_Paulson2
On reading my last reply, I see cause to take insult. I do not view your question as decrepit. I do however find all talk of restoring anything as decrepit. Most people, most of the time, do not care about restoring anything beyond what they have personally lost. Ideas least of all.

If we want Constitutional government, we are going to have to put it forth in a positive manner, without pointing to past, except to cite appropriate arguments of wisdom that apply today. Every generation, where applicable, needs to be convinced a new, of that which prior generations had to be convinced. That is, of the rightness of the cause at hand. The fact that the Constitution says such and such, is not good enough. America has never been a nation of doctrinaires.

I am truly sorry for the insult (though unintended), that I tossed at you. I should have known better.

9 posted on 03/13/2004 5:06:42 PM PST by jackbob
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