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It also guarantees trial by jury whenever the dispute is worth at least $20. Smart as the Founding Fathers were, they either did not expect the constitution to last, or did not know about inflation.

They could have said something sensible such as "an average workman's weekly wages" or something of the sort...

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Mar 28th, 2006 at 05:22:27 AM EST
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