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To: ExGeeEye

By the way, Rome did not have a written constitution, just one of the many superiorities of our system. Having the Constitution, I must be able to read somewhere in actual words that in such and such circumstances the president has dictatorial powers and you have to listen to him or else. Since I can’t, no such powers legitimately exist.

In other words, however great was Cincinnatus and however unlike his dictatorship was Caesar’s, that venerable Roman tradition is not among ours, and we have no such office.


50 posted on 06/21/2012 5:48:52 PM PDT by Tublecane
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To: Tublecane

I thought we were discussing vampires? How did this degenerate to this lvl?Discuss,,,,Did or did not Lincoln hunt vampires?


51 posted on 06/21/2012 6:01:40 PM PDT by Craftmore
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