[ExI] The Circle of Coercion

[Damien Sullivan]

On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 10:07:15PM -0700, Lee Corbin wrote:

> As is so often the case, there is no principle in
> operation here. Only expediency. So far as I can tell,
> expediency has been uniformly increasing in the U.S.
> at the expense of principle for about one hundred
> and fifty years.

Increasing, as opposed to having always been present?  What great
stances of principle can you point to?  The 3/5 compromise?  The Senate?
Andrew Jackson's violation of the Cherokees?

-xx- Damien X-)