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To: allmendream
Spurious means false, not frequent.

Yes, and I meant it that way. One of the protections afforded by the rigourous amendment process was against the document being easily changed under false pretense or because people were "snookered" into doing so.

35 posted on 01/04/2011 5:15:56 PM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (When evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will believe in abject nonsense.)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
If you meant it as false then the parenthetical “very often” was extraneous, and convention would be that such was your providing of the definition of a ‘difficult’ word.

But no matter.

36 posted on 01/04/2011 5:20:53 PM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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