Re: Re Strategic Reserve.

["Exnarc" <gwrly@netspace.net.au>]

John Garrison <corrjng@rbnet.com> wrote in message
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> Philip J. Kuhl <pjkuhl@erols.com> wrote in message
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> > John Garrison wrote:  "Virginian here! Are we not 50 sovreign [sic]
> states?"
> >
> > I fear not since 1865.  I believe it was the historian Shelby Foote who
> > noted that prior to the Civil War, American English usage was "The
United
> > States *are* ..." whereas after the War it changed to "The United States
> > *is* ..." i.e., from plural to singular.  Despite the many differences
> legal
> > and cultural between the states, the Civil War made it clear that the
> states
> > are not sovereign and that the Federal government has primacy.
> >
> > Philip J. Kuhl
> > Arlington 4, Virginia
> > PJKuhl@erols.com
> >
> >
>
> That's what the communist liberals would like us to believe. But alas in
the
> Old Dominion we count ourselves SOVREIGN. We are a memeber State of the US

Communist liberal?????????

You Americans sure have a way of confusing people in the English Speaking
world!!!!

<snip>

> If I seem like a foamer on the idea Sovreignty, well, I am guilty as
charged. >Thank God for the freedom of discourse that we enjoy in these
States.


Try telling that to the Hollywood 10 and the other victims of McCarthy's
clan.

Bob.