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Right. That's why we needed the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, and the Union Army to back them up. --jks

In a message dated Wed, 20 Sep 2000  3:32:39 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Barry Rene DeCicco <bdecicco at umich.edu> writes:

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> From: Matt Cramer <cramer at unix01.voicenet.com>


> In Matt's Libertarian Utopia there is a Fed .gov doing only its authorised
> duties according to the COTUS, and everything else is handled by state and
> local .gov's.  Then States can organise themselves according to their
> desired economic and political conditions.  

Didn't we try that already?  Seems to me that you're describing the
conditions in the US, pre-Civil War.

Barry

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