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[Rob <becida AT comcast.net>]

At  3/21/2008 01:01 PM,Gene GeRue wrote:

> On Mar 21, 2008, at 12:53 PM, Marie McHarry wrote:
> >
> > The Founding Fathers didn't want political parties, so they set up a
> > system that assumed there would be none.
> Yeah, they were certainly not omniscient. This from Wikipedia:
>
> The followers of  Alexander Hamilton, the Hamiltonian faction, took 
> up the name
> "Federalist"; they favored a strong central government

> The followers ofThomas  Jefferson, the Jeffersonians and then the 
> "Anti-Federalists," took up
> the name "Democratic-Republicans" they preferred a decentralized
> agrarian republic in which the federal government had limited power.

Looks like those following Jefferson lost then again the world has changed.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/02/26/news/UN-GEN-UN-Growing-Cities.php
The Associated PressPublished: February 26, 2008


>>UNITED NATIONS: Half the world's population will live in urban 
areas by the end of this year.<<




Rob
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