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To: unclewest who wrote (133213)	5/17/2004 12:32:38 AM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I'm not sure if you are referring to the US Constitution, but if you are--yes, that was written by 55 (or so) guys in secrecy, but there was a fairly extensive though not always pretty ratification process where issues were hotly argued. And no one said it couldn't be changed by future govts, although it is true that ratification included an "all or nothing" clause. But the Bill of Rights was written and passed within a few years of passing the Constitution. Furthermore, we have come a long way since those days. To compare the process in Iraq with the process in 1787 is just a mite ridiculous. Among many other differences, we were a fairly homogenous group culturally, and the number of people who could actively participate in that sort of process was extremely limited.