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To: Neocon who wrote (110201)	8/6/2003 12:35:00 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Americans wear their patriotism in their buttonhole; how many Frenchmen put up the tricolored flag in their garden on the fourteenth of July? In the United States, the places of worship, churches, temples, synagogues, mosques overflow; in Europe, the eglises close and Valery Giscard d'Estaing carefully omits all reference to God in the proposed preamble for the future European Constitution. Actually, Alexander Hamilton was asked sometime in the 1790s why the Founders didn't include references to God in the Constitution. He somewhat sarcastically retorted, "We forgot." Of course, this isn't an anecdote that many conservatives would bother to recall these days.