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Originally Posted by dc_dux
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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Did you not understand the first time?
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There would not have been a United States of both north and south w/o that compromise.
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Sez you. How do you know? You found that an acceptable compromise? I would have never accepted that - so I don't get your point.
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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.
Center for Civic Education Lesson 15: What Conflicting Opinions Did the Framers Have about the Completed Constitution? One could even suggest that your "no compromise" rigidity is counter to American values.
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I know what happened, but my point is that they failed on that point. The compromise lead to 200 years of racial strife and a civil war. You don't see that? You don't see those two things as a problem?
This clearly illustrates how I see something like health-care reform and how you see it. This crystallizes our differences, nothing I can add to make it clearer - and I don't understand your thought process on the issue of compromise.