-> On 14 Jan 09  10:35:11, Richard Webb got back to Dan Ceppa 
-> Re: American Taliban!

 RW> INdeed, one of the reasons, in fact the main reason our
 RW> constituion was written as it was, balancing of states
 RW> rights, bicameral legislature, three branches balancing
 RW> power, etc.  ONe must remember that we had the puritans of
 RW> Massachusets, the quakers, all these different religious
 RW> groups that originally settled, some such as the puritans
 RW> not willing to settle for religious diversity and tolerance, etc. 
 RW> Getting all the different interests to sign on was only possible if
 RW> everybody got some of what he wanted and nobody got everything he
 RW> wanted. 

Moreso was to insure that there was a system of checks and balances.  The 
Neocon version of concentratinbg all the power in thew executive branch 
destroys that ideal.  


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