A pretty selective sampling there, Doug.
It also neglects the fact, that your reading of the Constitution would make
the Declaration of Independence Unconstitutional.
It also neglects the fact that the Founders who participated in the very
first Congress chose as their first discretionary act
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A pretty selective sampling there, Doug.
It also neglects the
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 21:46:05 -0400, JDG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A pretty selective sampling there, Doug.
It's enough to show that the constitution provided a wall of separation
in the minds at least some of the more prominent founders.
It also neglects the fact, that your reading of the
At 11:23 PM 6/17/2004 -0500 Dan Minette wrote:
Yea, and you think that they'd pass some horribly unconstitutional law,
like the Alien and Sedition Act.
Which doesn't have nearly the significance of being the very FIRST act of
Congress.
JDG
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Dan wrote:
I'm sure that one can deconstruct it to mean anything, but the word
creator meant at the time being who created. I'm not really an
origional intent guy, but I think using the same mapping of combination
of letters onto ideas as they used at that time is really a good idea.
In
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