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Letters to the Editor for Jan 5

They can also start by reading chapter two of the book the second founding. it's called toward equality. it's a single chapter on, how do these parts of the 14th amendment come about? they can read that in 20 minutes. then they can go spend hours on the great debates of 1866. and they should especially learn the speeches by john bingham, it was bingham who voiced that quote i use the other day, put them in terror of their laws. that was bingham, and by the way, bingham was an anti slavery genuine abolitionist republican from eastern ohio. almost over to pittsburgh. he never made it into the se...

All dead and that it could not ever exist again. that is, that somebody could try to take some states out of the union over racial slavery or over anything else. that is what people need to understand here. section three wasn't just some politicized moment that can now be used in some politicized way. it was part of a very large effort by the original republican party to put the union back together in such a way as to try, with their laws, as john bingham, the author of section one of the 14th amendment put it, he says, you have to put them in terror of your laws. they are trying to use law to...

Goodbye, Susie - thank you. That brief sentence, uttered on a doorstep in East Sussex in the early hours of Friday, November 8, 1974, are the last words known to have been spoken by Lord Lucan.

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