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To: steve harris who wrote (682852)5/19/2005 8:38:52 PM
From: Wayners  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769668
 
Here is a list of the first U.S. Senate. They never used a single fillibuster to block a judicial nominee from getting an up and down vote. This was in 1788. You think these guys knew what the Constitution meant right after it was written?

Richard Bassett, Anti-Federalist, DE
Pierce Butler, Federalist, SC
Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Federalist, MD
Tristram Dalton, Federalist, MA
Philemon Dickinson, Federalist, NJ
Oliver Ellsworth, Federalist, CT
Jonathan Elmer, Federalist, NJ
William Few, Anti-Federalist, GA
Theodore Foster, Federalist, RI
William Grayson, Anti-Federalist, VA
James Gunn, Anti-Federalist, GA
Benjamin Hawkins, Federalist, NC
John Henry, Federalist, MD
Ralph Izard, Federalist, SC
William Samuel Johnson, Federalist, CT
Samuel Johnston, Federalist, NC
Rufus King, Federalist, NY
John Langdon, Federalist, NH
Richard Henry Lee, Anti-Federalist, VA
William Maclay, Anti-Federalist, PA
James Monroe, Anti-Federalist, VA
Robert Morris, Federalist, PA
William Paterson, Federalist, NJ
George Read, Federalist, DE
Philip Schuyler, Federalist, NY
Joseph Stanton, Jr., Anti-Federalist, RI
Caleb Strong, Federalist, MA
John Walker, Federalist, VA
Paine Wingate, Anti-Federalist, NH