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From: smeier@ihuxt.UUCP (S. Meier)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: The draft and the Constitution
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Date: Tue, 6-Mar-84 14:10:36 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar  6 14:10:36 1984
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>               ...  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''