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To: longnshort who wrote (81646)9/23/2010 3:45:23 PM
From: Peter Dierks  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 90947
 
The FFs thought that people would behave as George Washington did and self limit their terms of political office holding. When the man who extended the Great Depression behaved badly a Constitutional Amendment was required.

Of course they probably never envisioned paying elected officials enough to encourage them to live off taxpayers.


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