"Glorfindel" > wrote in message
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> wrote:
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>> They decided to write a Constitution which listed those things which a
>> central governing body would need to do for all of the country, and as
>> they put it (paraphrased by me here) leave the remainder of activities to
>> the individual states or the citizens of those states.
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> Glorfindel:
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> But it does not say that the citizens have to act only
> at the state level.
I didn't say that they did....
> The citizens are also citizens of
> the United States as a whole, and can act at a national
> level in the persons of their congressional representatives.
By jove I think you've got it.... a representitive government... not a
democracy!
> The states are not completely sovereign. The Civil War
> established that.
Wow.. two in a row....
Oscar
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