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Funny thing.

It isn't so much that I love history as it that I want to understand what is going on in our society today.
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It's like when we make some mistake or do something right that we trace back into past to find the original lesson or choice that led us to our present state. Maybe it was some small lesson we learned at our mother's knee or some thing we got away with when we were a small child. In any event we know that it was how the twig was bent that made the tree what it is today.
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So, reflection leads us to the knowledge of how things got to be the way they are today. That's a small understanding and it isn't just that way in our personal walk--it's the same way it is for everyone and for everything including our society and even civilization itself. The study of history teaches us the big--the overall--picture. And American Society is where it is today as a result of our history. And, that means if we want to understand where we have learned the good lessons or made the wrong choices, then, we have to trace our steps to learn what led us up to where we find ourselves today.
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I am seeing a certain strain that has run throughout our history that goes far back into our past--way back. I'm reading a speech George Mason made to the First Congress in which he makes this statement, "The judiciary of the United States is so constructed and extended as to absorb and destroy the judiciaries of the several states; thereby rendering laws as tedious, intricate, and expensive, and justice as unattainable, by a great part of the community, as in England, and enabling the rich to oppress and ruin the poor."
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Now, if we were doing a little study as to why he gave that speech, we would understand it had to do with the protection of the righteousness of the people in that the several states were guilty of making bad laws and expressing rights that were left unprotected. The Anti-Federalists--especially in Virginia--wanted to keep the Federal government weak so that it could not do what Mason connoted in the quotation I gave you.
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Today, we are seeing a surge of support for the positions held by those Anti-Federalists (States Rights Advocates?) and they are threatening us with a treacherous retrograde back in time. Cajolery is the method in which they are unashamedly using religious ideology into fooling well meaning people and taking us for a ride back into the days of empire. Very dangerous times indeed.
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Maybe each one of us can give these thoughts some serious consideration as your grand children's future hangs on the outcome?
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-- posted by pink101