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| | | Hi again, (...) I try only to make stuff up when it's inconsequential. ;) My "field" isn't early US/18th C. Britain, it's later, so all I have is ancillary knowledge and methodological things. I'm in agreement with the "they had different worries" (...) (25 years ago, 21-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: New Web Page —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | | | (...) Apologies--I snipped the conversation-order. Erk. I need to stop working so late. LFB. (25 years ago, 21-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: New Web Page —Christopher L. Weeks
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| | | | (...) "The people" - then and now - are whatever people we assume the constatution governs. That has clearly changed. I don't have answers to the fine points (e.g. are illegal aliens part of the people?) but I think that we can comfortably agree (...) (25 years ago, 21-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: New Web Page —Frank Filz
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| | | | (...) The Massachusetts militia were organized by towns. I think under an elected officer. The towns of course were (and still are) governed by open town meeting (total democracy).I don't recall how a leader was chosen when the militia of several (...) (25 years ago, 21-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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