On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:24:58 -0400, "Ed Huntress"
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It's not that hard. Most kids pass high school civics. Apparently you found
it a challenge.
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Its the traditional problem of how things *SHOULD* work [or
worked at one time] v. how they *DO* work. Not only do high
school civics classes have this problem but also the university
political science classes.

For example, Condoleezza Rice earned her bachelor's degree in
political science, cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the
University of Denver in 1974; her master's from the University of
Notre Dame in 1975; and her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of
International Studies at the University of Denver in 1981
http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/rice-bio.html


Unka' George [George McDuffee]
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He that will not apply new remedies,
must expect new evils:
for Time is the greatest innovator: and
if Time, of course, alter things to the worse,
and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better,
what shall be the end?

Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher, essayist, statesman.
Essays, "Of Innovations" (1597-1625).