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Date Posted: 08:47:17 09/21/02 Sat
Author: Mike A.
Author Host/IP: syr-24-92-249-138.twcny.rr.com / 24.92.249.138
Subject: I don't know
In reply to: Normal 's message, "Re: Wow!" on 21:18:11 09/20/02 Fri

I have a fresh brewed cup in front of me as I ponder and type... I'm always drawn to the play 1776 when I think about the Constitution and the manner in which it came to be. While a dramatization, it is in no small measure a kind of living evidence of the real way Americans do business - special interest pandering, for example, or expediency to gain an end.

The most spectacular success of the Constitution is the ability to modify it, expand it, craft it, add-to it, etc. Or put another way, as the wants, needs and interests of 'the people' have changed, so also has the 'meaning and intent' of the Constitution.

I guess my concern is with the swing to broad brush societal concerns over those of the individual. It seems to me that, as a nation, we are forgetting that what we do to one we do to all - when we protect one we protect all - and when we decide the plural is more important than the singular, we forget the true promise of the Constitution and its descriptions of "individual's" rights.

This ramble could go on but it really boils down to the 'weakness of the people' to be willing to defend the rights of people they disagree with. The notion of if we are all the same we will all get along simply flies in the face of an individual's freedom to choose. God's blood, if we all got along it would indeed be a dull world, and one that would have stopped at the cave mouth.

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Good morning, Mike! -- Grumpy�, 09:46:45 09/21/02 Sat
Re: I don't know -- Normal, 10:31:02 09/21/02 Sat
The granddaughters are occupying each other, so -- Grumpy�, 19:22:12 09/21/02 Sat