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To: neolib who wrote (229704)	11/20/2009 10:10:31 PM
From: Skeeter Bug	Respond to of 306849

>>I tend to agree with you, but then I tend to be more biased towards "common good" anyway, and I can't claim to know what the Founding Fathers were actually thinking. There's likely some room for other views.<< we don't need to read minds, we just have to read what they said... "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." Their objective follows the "To". The method to meet the objective is follows the "by". it is simple english. they simply meant what they said.