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As a junior member in the US House, he was a major …

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As a junior member in the US House, he was a major force: He wrote and then spearheaded passage of the Superfund law. He even authored the US nuclear negotiating position. And at a time when President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev faced off on the superpower stage, Gore had his own meeting with Gorbachev. And, of course, he created the Internet. At various times in his political career, Gore, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, has said all those things about himself and his family. None are quite true. Some are exaggerations grown up around kernels of biographical fact. Others are simply false. A few, like the boastful claim about the Internet, have become comic fodder, even for Gore. Al Gore
Boston Globe, 4/11/00

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I’ve had some experience in farming myself. I was raised a …

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I’ve had some experience in farming myself. I was raised a good part of my life on a farm. I’ve cleaned out hog lots. I’ve planted. I’ve harvested. I’ve taken up hay all day in the sun, and then after a shortdinner break help neighbors take it up by moonlight before the rain came. I’ve helped deliver calves with my bare hands. Agritalk with Ken Root, 3/20/99Bob Carter, 72, can buy the hay harvest, but delivering calves with bare hands he isn’t so sure about. Mr. Carter says he grew up on a dairy farm in Montgomery County [Md.], back before subdivisions even appeared in the blueprints. While his milking days are over, his heart is still with the cows. And calves. ‘This proves again that Mr. Gore probably doesn’t know anything about it,’ says the former dairy farmer. ‘Because one thing you do when a cow is having a calf is you don’t touch anything, you just let them handle things in a natural way like a cow can do.’ Al Gore
John McCaslin, The Washington Times, 3/24/99

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Here, let us again pause, and reflect, how admirably this division, and …

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Here, let us again pause, and reflect, how admirably this division, and distribution of legislative power is adapted to preserve the liberty, and to promote the happiness of the people of the United StatesEFifthly, and lastly; by the separation of the judiciary from the legislative department; and the independence of the former, of the control, or influence of the latter, in any case where any individual may be aggrieved or oppressed, under colour of an unconstitutional act of the legislature, or executive. In England, on the contrary, the greatest political object may be attained, by laws, apparently of little importance, or amounting only to a slight domestic regulation: the game-laws, as was before observed, have been converted into the means of disarming the body of the people:E Saint George Tucker
Blackstone’s Commentaries (1803), Volume 1, Appendix, Note D [Section 13: Restraints on Powers of Congress con’t]. Whole Book.