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In article <3763@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> joann@unixhub.slac.stanford.edu
writes:
>I think a minor fracas known as the Civil War settled that question. If a
>state constitution and the US constitution collide, the US wins. That's
>what that skirmish was all about.

I like the way you pose this.  In return I offer this quote:

From a long view of the history of mankind - seen from, say, ten thousand
years from now, there can be little doubt that the most significant event
of the 19th century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of
elctrodynamics.  The American Civil War will pale into provincial
insignificance in comparison with this important scientific event of the
same decade.

R. P. Feynman, Lectures on Physics, Vol. II, Addison-Wesley, 1964, page 1-11.

>Of course, I would expect this Supreme Court to cheerfully uphold loyalty
>oaths. Part of the general movement to forget the 60's and 70's ever
>happened.
>
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>Jo Ann Malina, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
		^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ so you should like that.
>joann@unixhub.slac.stanford.edu  -or-  415/926-2846
>Neither Stanford nor the DOE would be caught dead with these opinions.
>Nor do they consult me when formulating theirs.

Wow what a disclaimer!

--eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov
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This is the Usenet: do you expect anything other than gross generalizations?
Ref: Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning, vol. 1, G. Polya