Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxt.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihuxt!smeier From: smeier@ihuxt.UUCP (S. Meier) Newsgroups: net.legal Subject: Re: The draft and the Constitution Message-ID: <300@ihuxt.UUCP> Date: Tue, 6-Mar-84 14:10:36 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxt.300 Posted: Tue Mar 6 14:10:36 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 7-Mar-84 07:45:19 EST References: <1165@sdccs7.UUCP> <131@alberta.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 13 > ... For those of you who don't think that it can >happen in the good ol' US of A, look up some of the dictatorial powers >that G. Washington had given to him by Congress during the Revolutionary >war. ... please note that our present constitution and system of government didn't exist during the Revolutionary War. The Congress you refer to were the Continental Congresses, not the Congress we all know and love today. I'm not trying to argue your point that a military coup is possible even in the U.S.A., but I don't think your example is at all relevant. ``S''