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Friday, September 24, 2010

Op-Ed Contributor - The Founding Fathers Versus the Tea Party - NYTimes.com

Op-Ed Contributor - The Founding Fathers Versus the Tea Party - NYTimes.com: "No single group should ever presume to claim special ownership of the founding fathers or the Constitution they wrought with such skill and ingenuity. Those lofty figures, along with the seminal document they brought forth, form a sacred part of our common heritage as Americans. They should be used for the richness and diversity of their arguments, not tampered with for partisan purposes. The Dutch historian Pieter Geyl once famously asserted that history was an argument without an end. Our contentious founders, who could agree on little else, would certainly have agreed on that."

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