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Show ". . . The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest wis-est and best, that the States ire independant as to everything every-thing within themselves, and united as to everything respecting re-specting foreign nations. Let the general government be reduced re-duced to foreign concerns only, and let our affairs be disentangled disen-tangled from those of all other nations, except as to commerce, comm-erce, which the merchants will manage the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves, and our general government may be reduced to a very simple organization, and a very unexpensive one; "a few plain duties to be performed by a few servants . . ." Thomas Jefferson, 1800 Words are an 'attempt to grip and dissect that which is ultimate essence is as ungrip-pable ungrip-pable as a shadow. Samuel Butler |