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Sat Sep-30-06 07:42 PM
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| Deja Vu All Over Again - Lex Gabinia, Lex Manilia, Enabling Act |
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The old saying - those who don't read history are doomed to repeat it. But this "deja vu all over again" is getting frighteningly worrisome--
Lex Gabinia
Lex Manilia
Enabling Act
Have we irreversibly started dismantling the experiment of the American Republic?
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Sat Sep-30-06 07:58 PM
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| 1. Is the last Gracchus an 88 year old man with trembling hands and two canes |
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killed on the floor of the Senate for his "Agrarian Reforms." I had always blindly assumed he was a relatively young man at that time.
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Sun Oct-01-06 11:39 AM
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| 3. There were 2 Gracchi brothers. Both supported the plebes over the |
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Senate traditional patrician latifundia. They were sort of proto-Jeffersonian small holder virtue-riddled populists. Their mother was Cornelia. Their idea spread out thru the late Republic, and C. Julius Caesar was their intellectual heir, in theory.
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