[My2Cents]

Those who wrote the constitution were very steeped in the culture of the printed word and the essays that were written to define the theory of representative democracy.

Reminds me of the video clip Rush used to show on his TV program of Clinton and Gore driving by bus to Washington prior to the inaugration in '93. The group arrived at Monticello, and on the clip, Gore points out a bust and asks, "Who's that?" The guide responds: "That's Thomas Jefferson."

[cardinal4]

AL GORE: No, and it should be seen as shocking, in America at least, that so many individual rights have been lost so quickly. I believe that there has been a diminishing of the role played by reasoned debate. And when logic and reason are withdrawn from the public sphere, it creates a vacuum into which ideology and religious extremism rush in...

Name one right we have lost, ya dope. They love this argument until someone asks them to enumerate the rights lost..