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To: DMaA who wrote (28408)	1/18/1999 12:35:00 PM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 67261

solution to local tyranny was to ensure that everyone had the absolute right and freedom to move. That era ended with the Civil War and the filling of the west. no one thought it was unconstitutional for some states to have state sponsored religions It's not that it was not thought about, It's just that there was not the power to stop them. A similar concept is the phrase In God We Trust on the money. Many think it's unconstitutional but there is not a sufficient power base to change it. TP

To: DMaA who wrote (28408)	1/18/1999 12:39:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 67261

The founders' solution to local tyranny was to ensure that everyone had the absolute right and freedom to move. Would you care to document that one, DMA? I got my doubts. Perhaps the founder's solution to the current imbroglio would be for those who insist they know better than the apparent majority to move. Or, perhaps they just chose to ignore the moral reformationists among them. My understanding is that the founders of our "Christian nation" were vaguely deist at best, hardly inerrant interpreters of the Holy Bible. Then there's the other problem, that the founders couldn't figure out any reasonable solution to the slavery problem. This left it for Lincoln to resolve. James McPherson, for one, argues that Lincoln's solution had as much to do with our nationhood in its present form as the founding fathers. The party of Lincoln may choose to go to war to remake it again, but I have my doubts it will work out to their advantage.