No slight to Mike, who I consider a good friend, but where do you think he's from?
Where he's from doesn't alter the state of facts and evidence.
Fact and evidence dictates one who can think to begin with.
Bottom line is citizens of the era did not believe in dictating from the government on their soil (read tyranny) that both sides seemed to have a hard on for.
Its kind of like having a referendum for or against slavery and having a judge make the opposite law because the legislatures hadn't the balls to do their job....REPRESENTING.
