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Re: Edmund Burke

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Subject: Re: Edmund Burke
From: David Camden-Britton <davidcb@turbonet.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 18:00:15 -0700
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Previously, Douglas wrote:

men didn't have to. In an earlier exchange, I was exhorted with religious fervor to read the U.S. Constitution instead of waiting (as I apparently had been) for the movie. A delightful thought experiment occurs to me -- trying to explain to James Madison that mandatory tops for women was unconstitutional. I like to imagine our former president's eyes getting as big as saucer plates.

One might imagine the eyes of Mr. Ben Franklin and Mr. Thomas Jefferson getting equally wide, for entirely different reasons. Quite a strange lot of gents were part of the framing of the Constitution, and we are likely the better for the variety.

--- David Camden-Britton -=)*(=- davidcb@turbonet.com

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