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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (51079)	8/13/1999 1:04:00 PM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

If you got a bunch of people in a room a few years after the creation of federalism and gave them the task of systematically undermining and eventually gutting the whole purpose of the Revolution and the Declaration of Independence, I don't think they could do any better than the mess we have gotten from our "revered" politicians the last 150 years...

To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (51079)	8/13/1999 1:16:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 108807

This country has changed considerably from it's inception and now is much different than our founding fathers intended. That is true. Whether it is a good or bad thing is a wonderful subject for an after dinner conversation. I still believe in the basic principles of our founding. But I also have to admit that when you have more than twice as many people living in one city (New York, pop around 8 million) that lived in the entire nation when the country was founded (1790 census showed 3.9 million total population for the entire country), when you probably have more GDP generated in a single county in Iowa than was generated in the entire nation on 1775, etc., then things have to change, including some basic principles and assumptions of society and government.