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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject:      Read the constitution (1:8:17)
To: Multiple recipients of list AZRKBA <AZRKBA@ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU>

At 05:43 PM 11/28/96 -0700, you wrote:
>In the Arizona Republic on Thanksgiving day, Bill Clinton is quoted "...
>our founders in daring to build the world's first constitutional democracy
>... "in his Thanksgiving message. It would be nice if everyone knew that
>our founders created a constitutional republic. If the people who claim to
>run our government for us knew this we might be happy to hear that at least
>some of them have read the constitution that they swear to protect and
>defend.If this miracle did happen, we might see some constitutional gun
legislation.

The vast population of federal citizens
who now inhabit the several States is
a legislative democracy, not a constitutional
republic, because the District of Columbia
never joined the Union, and federal citizens
owe their allegiance to the District of
Columbia.  So, Clinton does have a democracy
to manage, quite a large one at that.  See
The Insular Cases for the pivotal controversy
inside the U.S. Supreme Court.

/s/ Paul Mitchell

>
>--
>Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason?
>   For it to prosper, none dare call it treason.
>--- Sir John Harrington 1561-1612
>
>

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