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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bbsam" data-source="post: 814936" data-attributes="member: 22662"><p>Your statement seems plausible, but we'd really have to read more from the time period and not take the writing of a single senator to "sum up" what was intended.  He is, afterall, a politician.  With politics being as messy if not more so in the past as it is today, anything is possible.  And to take one writing and not even look for a dissenting opinion is akin to a statement like "According to the framers of the Constitution...."  That is a phrase that tends to make me dubious about whatever comes after it because it tries to imply that they were all of one mind on an issue.  Highly unlikely.</p></blockquote><p></p>