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Even Supporters Doubt President as Issues Pile Up. who are these people? it isn't as if anything has actually changed in the last year. all of these issues were on the table a year ago.


Who is thankful today? The people of Jackson, Mississippi. "an increase in the purchase of guns and jewelry". excellent use of taxpayers' money.

distorted intelligence. duh.

the cristian right.

“The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion.”

THOSE WORDS, PENNED IN ARTICLE 11 of the 1797 Treaty of Tripoli, are as succinct a statement as we have from the Founding Fathers on the role of religion in our government. Their authorship is ascribed variously to George Washington, under whom the treaty was negotiated, or to John Adams, under whom it took effect, or sometimes to Joel Barlow, U.S. consul to Algiers, friend of Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine, and himself no stranger to the religious ferment of the era, having served as a chaplain in the Revolutionary Army. But the validity of the document transcends its authorship for a simple reason: it was ratified. It was debated in the U.S. Senate and signed into law by President Adams without a breath of controversy or complaint concerning its secular language, and so stands today as an official description of the founders’ intent.

indeed. the brilliance of the system isn't that the people may enact it's will via the vote of the majority but that there are limits to what the majority may do. that is, there can be no tyranny of the majority over the minority.