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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank

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To: TimF who wrote (1503)1/18/2001 6:31:41 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
The actual meaning of the Constitution was intended to apply to white landowning men- women, minorities, children- were NOT considered to have any rights. When you read:

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common
defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the
United States of America.

You would THINK that meant all people? Wouldn't you? But it didn't. Words words words. They aren't worth the paper they are written on without men to interpret them and enforce them. So it has always been, so it will always be.
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