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To: Wonder Warthog
Dude, that is just plain silly. Those things were pushed through as Constitutional amendments. The mechanisms of restraint against those are huge.

Those things passed because the nation succumbed to the temptations of direct democracy and of marxist levelling.

31 posted on 10/26/2002 7:05:10 AM PDT by William McKinley
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To: William McKinley
"Dude, that is just plain silly. Those things were pushed through as Constitutional amendments. The mechanisms of restraint against those are huge. Those things passed because the nation succumbed to the temptations of direct democracy and of marxist levelling."

Well, DUDE, the restraints built into the Constitution WERE NOT ENOUGH to prevent that, now were they? That simple fact speaks for itself.

35 posted on 10/26/2002 10:32:27 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog
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