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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: gerard mangiardi who wrote (364340)	2/27/2003 9:01:52 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Respond to of 769670

(sigh) I knew someone would come along to miss the point, having apparently not properly read the thread. I had hoped against hope I would not have to continually spell the matter out. The Constitution does not bind us to exact nit-picking practices of the past, but to essential philosophies extant in the past. Slavery was once allowed by the Constitution. But the Constitution did not bind us to the nit-picking practice of the Triangular Slave Trade. It actually bound us to a broader concept of freedom.