Silence8 -> RE: Lone senator blocks unemployment benefit extensions (2/27/2010 3:11:42 PM)
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ORIGINAL: truckinslave Almost. Every. Word. And every word in the Constitution. Except that, I seem to recall that the Constitution replaced the Articles of Confederation precisely because the latter didn't give the federal government enough power. The big motivator was Shay's Rebellion, which occurred over, get this, predatory banking policies and foreclosure upon poor Western Massachusetts farmers. The holy federalists were afraid precisely of a some form of a true democracy coming into fruition.
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