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To: quidnunc
Valery Giscard d'Estaing, who often described himself as the "Thomas Jefferson of the European Constitution." (With fine French hauteur, Giscard never felt enough interest in the U.S. Constitution, the world's oldest continuous written constitution, to notice that Thomas Jefferson had nothing to do with the document: He'd been serving as ambassador to France during the Philadelphia Convention of 1787.)

LOL! Gotta love that!

2 posted on 05/24/2005 9:55:36 AM PDT by GVnana
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To: GVgirl
Thomas Jefferson had nothing to do with the document: He'd been serving as ambassador to France during the Philadelphia Convention of 1787

and opposed it's ratification as well.

That is funny, but not as funny as the Euro Constitution itself which is 265 pages long without amendments while the 220 year-old US Constitution, with all the amendments, is only 11 pages.

9 posted on 05/24/2005 3:32:28 PM PDT by Ditto ( No trees were killed in sending this message, but billions of electrons were inconvenienced.)
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