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Originally Posted by jviehe
Which public services and why? When we founded the US they did not consider public education a service to be provided by the federal govt. They left it up to individuals to decide whether they wanted education, and states to decide whether to provide it as a state service. And they were pretty smart people.
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right, the founding fathers were very smart, very well educated people.
what do you think the literacy rate in the country was at that time?
by the way, states still decide whether or not they want to provide public education to their citizens. as far as i know, providing public education is not a prerequisite to becoming a state.