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To: JohnM who wrote (33977)	7/8/2002 10:44:13 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Were you thinking of some specific or just stating a generic worry? Only a generic concern - one thing which has become clear to me is the importance of taking very measured steps in anything having to do with the deep structure of our government. I can give you one example - the French are on their Fifth Republic since their revolution, and I still don't think they've quite gotten things quite right ! I've read their constitution, and was struck by how it didn't seem to fit together as elegantly as our own. Culture and history clearly play a vital role in such things, but one senses how often different governments resemble "bad copies of the instruction set" of some other elegant computer architecture, to use an engineering metaphor. There really is something world class about the US government, and I'm pretty sure that it will survive the USA becoming a Latin American country sometime within this century (which seems to me to be a likely prediction.)