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| | | Hi! (...) <culturerant> I'm from Detroit. Half of my family came from Ontario in the early decades of this century; the other half is from Ohio. I've got Canadian, English, Welsh, Norman, Saxon, Oneida, and Lord knows what other identity. What's (...) (26 years ago, 15-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: New Web Page —Frank Filz
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| | | | | Mr L F Braun wrote in message <373D07C9.3E786497@p...su.edu>... (...) wrong.) (...) Your entirely ignoring the reason for the Declaration of Independance... The reason the United States has its own government totally independant of England is (...) (26 years ago, 16-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: New Web Page —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | | | | Sorry for the absence--it's been a long week. (...) I'm not talking about accepting French aid--which was instrumental to our success--but in exalting the French and the aristocracy of that country. There was a ton of Francophilia going on in the (...) (26 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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| | | | (...) Hi. (...) But, the people of the colonies and the people of Britain had different worries. I don't want to get into a historical debate, because I am simply not equipped to do so...I mean I'm ignorant in comparison to you. (unless you're (...) (26 years ago, 17-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: New Web Page —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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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" (...) (26 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. (26 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 (...) (26 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 (...) (26 years ago, 21-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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