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Originally Posted by aceventura3
I don't believe the polls. I believe what I heard, what I saw. I listened as people went off on the subject of President Obama's and Speaker Pelosi's agenda. If you believe the polls, that is o.k. If everybody in the world believes them and I don't, that is o.k. too - I will stand alone.
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I get it...national polls of scientifically selected samples of cross-section of voters are less meaningful than your personal observations of your friends and neighbors.
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Wow, do I disagree. They compromised on the slavery question, need I say more. That screw up alone cost this country over 200 years of racial strife. On that issue they failed in my opinion.
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There would not have been a United States of both north and south w/o that compromise. Are you really that clueless?
Civics less for you, ace:
What did the Framers think when the Philadelphia Convention ended?
The Constitution has been described as "a bundle of compromises." As you have seen, such prominent features of the Constitution as the different plans for representation in the House and the Senate and the method of selecting the president were settled by compromise. Compromise, however, means that everyone gets less than they want. There were enough compromises in the completed Constitution that nearly every delegate could find something he did not like. During the four months the delegates had spent putting the Constitution together, there were some strong disagreements. Some had walked out of the convention. Three refused to sign the finished document.
http://www.civiced.org/index.php?page=wtp_hs15_sb
One could even suggest that your "no compromise" rigidity is counter to American values.