I appreciate your good humor my friend. I perceive your words as complement. I am not a part of any think tank. I am just a country boy; Plain ole American Citizen who realizes and appreciates the sacrifice, struggles, hardships, and courage of our founding Fathers before, during, and after the breakaway from England. Then forming a new country, along with the wisdom of those brave souls, demonstrated afterward by the words written 'by them', in our Constitution, and think it is only fitting as a lay American Citizen (commoner if you will), of my responsibility and duty to educate myself of the beginnings of My Country and to some extent, of the Country in whcih my Country broke away from and was born. Adding: I have great respect and a sentimental attachment to (Your Country) as well Cider, feeling my English roots extending across a vast sea to your shores.
Phillip