Re: Help design the ideal Presidential candidate

On May 16, 12:55 am, David Friedman <d...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>  AlfredMontestruc<montest...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On May 15, 8:38 pm, "Keith F. Lynch" <k...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > AlfredMontestruc<montest...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > You must presume that the citizens of South Carolina had no
> > > > right to seceded exactly as they seceded from the UK some 90
> > > > odd years before, ...
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> > > Most adults in South Carolina had no voice in either secession.
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> > > Keith F. Lynch -http://keithlynch.net/
> > > Please seehttp://keithlynch.net/email.htmlbeforeemailing
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> > I was careful in my statements.
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> > The majority of citizens were heard loud and clear in both cases by
> > the state government.
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> > Giving the vote to every warm body is a new idea,  why stop at 18, or
> > with humans.
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> I may be mistaken, but I'm pretty sure that in the 19th century U.S.
> women were citizens, even if they didn't have the vote.
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> Of course, you could argue that their voices got heard--as voices, not
> as votes.
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probably you are right, but that does not change anything AFAIK.  From
what I know southern white women in 1861 were if anything more rabid
about secession than men.