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brooklynite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 12:14 PM
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"The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes..."
How'd they let that slip in there?
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Drale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 12:23 PM
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1. I'm surprised they didn't drag up a copy of the articles of confederation
and try and pass that off as the constitution, hell most of the tea baggers wouldn't know the difference.
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PBS Poll-435 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 12:25 PM
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2. I am surprised they didn't read this
http://www.law.ou.edu/ushistory/csaconstitution/preamble.shtml
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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 01:01 PM
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3. It was a major reason for HAVING a constitution.
Big war debts needed to be paid off.
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ClassWarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 01:05 PM
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4. Really? Unrecs for paying one's fair share at DU? Hmmm...
NGU.
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