[Hemingway's Ghost]

Great stuff. Thanks for the education.

[darrellmaurina]

123 posted on Wednesday, February 29, 2012 3:36:38 PM by RobbyS: “Interesting to compare Mr.Justice Storey’s commentary on the Constitution with what passes as constitutional law today. He was a unitarian, but his views, which were similar to those of aristocrats such as John Quincy Adams, take a very different view of the First Amendment than Black does in Everson. As to the Baptists, there is a difference between those influenced by the evangelicalism of the 18th Century and the older, more conservative congregations.”

115 posted on Wednesday, February 29, 2012 10:52:09 AM by Hemingway's Ghost: “Great stuff. Thanks for the education.”

Glad to help, or at least try to do so.

I believe it is important that we understand the potential for the internet as a venue for education. Politics in the days of the Lincoln-Douglas debates assumed a high level of knowledge on the part of the hearers — knowledge not only of current issues of the day but also of American history and principles of political theory and constitutional law.

We can't assume that today, but what we **CAN** do is use the question-and-answer format of internet discussions to try to bring back some of what we have lost through a dumbed-down education system.