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To: Katelew who wrote (252666)	12/30/2007 5:38:16 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Oh sure, you seem like a nice person on SI, but do you wear sensible shoes?

To: Katelew who wrote (252666)	12/30/2007 6:08:22 PM
From: J. C. Dithers	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

The electorate is scared to death of democrats when this is the party that believes in govt. and has a vested interest in making goverment work. It's too bizarre for me, and I don't know how we, as a country came to this. We as a country "came to this" upon our founding. At that time the founding fathers envisioned a central government with limited and very specifically enumerated powers: 1. The 4 principal reasons why a federal government was formed: "(1) The common defense (national security); (2) the preservation of public peace, as well against internal convulsions as external attacks; (3) the regulation of commerce with other nations and between states; (4) the superintendent of our intercourse, political and commercial, with foreign countries (foreign affairs)." - Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Paper No.23, 1787. 2. Above in more detail: "The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation and foreign commerce. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives and liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement and prosperity of the State." - James Madison, Federalist Paper No. 25, 1788. The real question you should pose is, "How did we come so far away from this?"