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To: Snowshoe who wrote (64290)	5/26/2005 5:43:23 AM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

From your reference- "In his carefully worded Frame of Government for Pennsylvania Penn gave the citizens both liberty and responsibility." The Cavalier attitude, and to a large extent the Scotch/Irish, was to maximize liberty and minimize responsibility or restraint on individual actions. Restraint occurs when your actions infringe on some other individual's rights or property, not on the preferences or desires of the 'community'. This leads to a society which reflects and is dependent on the indivdual character and actions. See the characters in "Gone with the Wind" A good example of community approval/disapproval in a small New England town is Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter", about a woman being punished for adultery. There's a social scientist named Etazoni who is the main intellectual architect of of the 'new commitarian' movement. One of Bill Clinton's favorite thinkers, which is ironic, since Slick Willie was voted most likely to violate community norms, and Normas.... ******* Another factoid which you won't see in many history books - Quakers sold guns to the plains Indians while the US Army was at war with them. At the same time, Canadians were also selling guns to Indians in the Dakotas, to slow US expansion. Americans were selling guns to plains Indians in Canada, trying to slow the Canadians from linking the country together, and also in hopes of grabbing more of Western Canada.