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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
Haplo and GR: Next time there is an argument about what is supposed to be different about our country, please don't say "Of the people, by the people, FOR the people." I agree that the original concept was to protect individual freedom and autonomy for the citizens, but the wording has been argued about for as long as the ideas and ideals have. Nit-picking the wording to prove your point doesn't prove anything.
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Steve - your capitalization of the word FOR makes the perfect point - its not JUST one part of that at a time. Its intended to be a goverment that does FOR the People in the ways Of the people that they want BY the people that are duly elected. Not just one section. The issue with this mess is that it may be FOR the people - but it is not OF the people since the people didn't support it.
As for nit-picking the wording - as I said in my previous post here - words mean things. Substituting those words for other ones with "similiar" meaning changes the original intent. So for accuracy sake we should be VERY concerned with the meaning of the words. It is not "nit-picking" when one insists that something means what it says, vs it meaning something other than what it says.