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To: Jacquerie
Our pre-1913 constitution did not rely on virtue. Sure, a virtuous people will send better people to the House, but when they don't, the senate of the states is there to stop idiocy.

But Madison also never expected the people to repeatedly send the unvirtuous back to Congress over and over again, as I point out in post 43.

-PJ

74 posted on 06/26/2015 4:49:50 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Political Junkie Too

If virtue was all that was required, there was no need for a constitution.


79 posted on 06/26/2015 5:03:16 PM PDT by Jacquerie (Article V. If not now, when?)
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