> I think the two of you are in violent agreement. :-)
>
> If the writers of the German constitution drew many of their ideas from,
> say, the British constitution, then yes, I would say that the German
> constitution would be based on the British, even if there was not a single word
> directly taken from it. (I don't know what's true in fact..) The American
> constitution (to take another example) was based on many ideas of the French
> Enlightenment. Linux was based on UNIX kernels.
>
> Please don't keep arguing over semantics.
Well put, I could not agree more.
Thanks Dan.
-Neal
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