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- <title>
- Mar. 19, 1990: American Notes:Vermont
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Mar. 19, 1990 The Right To Die
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 25
- American Notes
- VERMONT
- Love It Or Leave It
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Vermonters tend to be crusty, idiosyncratic and, above all,
- independent. After the Revolution, it took them 14 years to
- decide to join the Union. So with the 200th anniversary of
- statehood at hand, it seemed reasonable to stage a series of
- debates on whether the time had come for the Green Mountain
- State to declare its independence. The Vermont Statehood
- Bicentennial Commission selected political scientist Frank
- Bryan of the University of Vermont to argue for seceding from
- the Union and State Supreme Court Justice John Dooley to argue
- for staying put.
- </p>
- <p> If the first face-off is any measure, Bryan has the more
- popular case. "The state should get out," he said in the
- initial joust in Bennington, because, among other things, every
- Vermonter now owes $12,000 toward the national debt. "How can
- you love the country and leave it?" countered Dooley, noting
- that a "cute little government will not stop acid rain." At
- debate's end, the audience voted 95 to 55 in favor of going it
- alone.
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- </body>
- </article>
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