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Are_grits_groceries

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2. I look at it as the hinges of Democracy.

Reply to orpupilofnature57 (Reply #1)

Wed Feb 6, 2013, 07:40 AM

Feb 2013

They link our branches of government and provide some way to help or hinder each other.
Your analogy works too.

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