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To: Fred Levine who wrote (45158)	4/6/2001 1:21:22 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Respond to of 70976

OT -- Fred, I hear you. What I was saying is that modification to constitution is not the same as birth of a nation. The America we live in today, is a very different one from the one in 50's (or the turn of the century or the civil was era, etc). These differences are just due to technological advances. There have been radical changes in society and law which are not much different in magnitude than those of modern day China and 1940 China. The changes in US have not been smooth or stable. One could argue that either a handful of people had taken control of the government against the laws (e.g. Macarthy and Co) or that otherwise the people put sufficient pressure on the system to gain the freedoms they demanded (women's right to vote). Either way, there was a "revolution" that was not quite bloodless. All this aside, the constitution and the governmental system is more a reflection of the nation than the other way around. Taken in that context, the United States is the youngest nation in the world. This is not a bad thing. Just as a teenager has a better immune system and a greater passion for life and change, so does a young nation. Just as a teenager makes greater leaps in life and achieves more than an old man, so does a young nation. At the same time, there are things that are only achieved through time and experience. Teenagers tend to be more hot-headed and less concerned with long term consequences than older people. just my two cents, ST