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To: Huck
I think they meant that strange women laying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.

If you're going to refer to Monty Python, get it right. It's "watery tart."

And I'm trying to answer your question but it doesn't work if you don't give alittle. What do you think the founders meant when they claimed that governments derived their just powers from the consent of the governed?

298 posted on 12/30/2001 5:28:22 PM PST by Demidog
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To: Demidog
If you're going to refer to Monty Python, get it right. It's "watery tart."

This is the line, from the script:

DENNIS: Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

ARTHUR: Be quiet!

You were getting that line confused with this one, which follows it:

DENNIS: Well, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!

But thanks for trying anyway.

And I'm trying to answer your question but it doesn't work if you don't give alittle.

What doesn't work? It's a simple question. I'll post it one more time. If you want me to "give" a little, then start by answering my question. I have already answered yours once. Here's mine for the third time:

Is any expenditure by the gubmint "that doesn't have the 100% support of the American people by definition coersion and thus immoral" in your understanding, or just aid?

318 posted on 12/30/2001 5:45:17 PM PST by Huck
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