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To: WhiskeyPapa
No reasonable person could read the Preamble's "...to form a more perfect Union" as anything but a pledge of perpetuity.

No literate person would read it that way, pamphleteer.

And you'll not be able to show Lee meant anything else.

I already showed you that Lee was mistaken. As 4CJ inconveniently showed you just now, the word "perpetual" was not used in the Constitution, with precision. Ergo, Lee was mistaken, and as I noticed to you, Lee was thinking about the Articles of Confederation, and his own Unionist sentiments (following Washington), and misunderstood what the Constitution actually said -- again, as we have pointed out to you.

Read the 9th Amendment, Wlat, and weep for your theory of the Civil War as "justifiable homicide 'cuz I told him he couldn't". It isn't supported by reading the Founders, but only the novels of Abe Lincoln and his latterday Declarationist defenders.

630 posted on 05/29/2002 7:27:01 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: lentulusgracchus
No reasonable person could read the Preamble's "...to form a more perfect Union" as anything but a pledge of perpetuity.

No literate person would read it that way, pamphleteer.

Robert E. Lee did.

Walt

686 posted on 05/30/2002 2:54:48 AM PDT by WhiskeyPapa
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