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From: cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Jacobson)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Amendments
Message-ID: <1991Apr28.225438.16387@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 28 Apr 91 22:54:38 GMT
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It's a little idiotic to expect that "the people" will be the ones
represented at a Constitutional Convention, don't you think?  When
fewer than half even turn out to vote at a presidential election,
what makes you think more would attend a CC (particularly if it 
meant missing work and getting paid)?  And why would the elites
permit this participation, if the stakes were so high?

Pollyanna, my friend.

Bob
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