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From: "Vern Humphrey" 
Reply-To: r_catholic-l{at}yahoogroups.com

To: seanmbrook{at}aol.com [mailto:seanmbrook{at}aol.com]
> > >
> > VH> Except in America, where our Constitution forbids it.  We have an
> > aristocracy mainly of merit, not of birth.
> >
>  Wrong.  The US also has a stratified society.  It does
>  not matter if the "aristocracy" is one based on urban
>  wealth or the land.  And it does not matter if formal
>  honors are used or not.  The "A" thing exists, like it
>  or not.
>
Wrong.  The fact that some Americans are of higher socio-economic status
than others is not proof that we have an inhereted aristocracy.

OUR aristocracy is one of merit.  The American population is remarkably
mobile in both social and economic status.  Look at Clarence Thomas.  His
grandfather was a poor sharecropper, his great-grandfather a slave.


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