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pythonCode/personTestingOutput/fgn-plcy.xml

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ was considered essential if the human inclination toward
 political abuse of power was to be prevented. "No political
 truth is certainly of greater intrinsic value, or is stamped
 with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty,"
-stated <ent type='PERSON'>James Madison</ent> in The Federalist Papers, "than that
+stated James Madison in The Federalist Papers, "than that
 . . . [t]he accumulation of all power, legislative, executive
 and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or
 many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may
@@ -34,23 +34,23 @@ the matter came up at the convention as to which branch of
 government would have the authority to "make war,"
 disagreement arose. <ent type='PERSON'>Pierce Butler</ent> of <ent type='GPE'>South Carolina</ent> wanted
 that power to reside in the President who, he said, "will have
-all the requisite qualities." <ent type='PERSON'>James Madison</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Elbridge Gerry</ent>
+all the requisite qualities." James Madison and <ent type='PERSON'>Elbridge Gerry</ent>
 of <ent type='GPE'>Massachusetts</ent> were for "leaving to the <ent type='ORG'>Executive</ent> the power
 to repel sudden attacks" but proposed changing the wording to
 "declare" rather than "make war," and then only with the
 approval of both <ent type='ORG'>Houses</ent> of <ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent>. <ent type='PERSON'>Oliver Ellsworth</ent> of
-<ent type='GPE'>Connecticut</ent> agreed, saying that "It should be more easy to get
+Connecticut agreed, saying that "It should be more easy to get
 out of war than into it." And <ent type='PERSON'>George Mason</ent> of <ent type='GPE'>Virginia</ent> also
 was "against giving the power of war to the <ent type='ORG'>Executive</ent>, because
 [he was] not safely to be trusted with it." <ent type='ORG'>Mason</ent> "was for
 clogging rather than facilitating war."</p>
 
 <p>Thus, in the final, ratified Constitution, the <ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent>, in
-<ent type='PERSON'>Article</ent> I, Section 8, was given the sole authority, "To
-Declare War," while the President, in <ent type='PERSON'>Article</ent> II, Section 2,
+Article I, Section 8, was given the sole authority, "To
+Declare War," while the President, in Article II, Section 2,
 was made "Commander in Chief of the <ent type='ORG'>Army</ent> and <ent type='ORG'>Navy</ent> of the
-United <ent type='GPE'>States</ent>, and <ent type='ORG'>the Militia</ent> of the several <ent type='GPE'>States</ent>, when
-called into the actual service of <ent type='GPE'>the United States</ent>." Civilian
+United States, and <ent type='ORG'>the Militia</ent> of the several States, when
+called into the actual service of <ent type='GPE'>the United</ent> States." Civilian
 authority over the military was established, with
 Constitutionally divided power over its application in war:
 <ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent> declared war, and the President oversaw its
@@ -69,17 +69,17 @@ procedural hurdles and delays in the way before the passions
 of the moment could result in declarations of war and the
 initiation of hostilities against other nations.</p>
 
-<p>Yet, in spite of these Constitutional restraints, the United
-<ent type='GPE'>States</ent> has participated in four foreign wars in the 20th
+<p>Yet, in spite of these Constitutional restraints, <ent type='GPE'>the United</ent>
+States has participated in four foreign wars in the 20th
 century--two <ent type='EVENT'>World Wars</ent>, the <ent type='NORP'>Korean</ent> "police action" and the
-<ent type='GPE'>Vietnam</ent> conflict--and in three of these, <ent type='GPE'>the United States</ent> was
+<ent type='GPE'>Vietnam</ent> conflict--and in three of these, <ent type='GPE'>the United</ent> States was
 neither directly attacked nor threatened by a foreign enemy.
 Why, then, did we intervene?</p>
 
 <p>The answer lies in the ideology of the welfare state. First in
 the years preceding <ent type='EVENT'>World War</ent> I, and then again in the 1930s,
 <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> intellectuals and politicians undertook grand
-experiments in social engineering. <ent type='ORG'>The Progressive Era</ent> of
+experiments in social engineering. The Progressive Era of
 <ent type='PERSON'>Theodore Roosevelt</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Woodrow Wilson</ent>, and <ent type='EVENT'>the New Deal days</ent>
 of <ent type='ORG'>Franklin</ent> D. <ent type='PERSON'>Roosevelt</ent>, were the crucial decades for the
 implementation of the politics of government intervention and
@@ -99,34 +99,34 @@ men.</p>
 
 <p>And what was good for <ent type='NORP'>Americans</ent> at home, surely would be no
 less beneficial for the masses of people across the oceans.
-Was not <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent> a caldron of political intrigue and corruption?
-Were not the people of <ent type='LOC'>Asia</ent>, <ent type='LOC'>Africa</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Latin America</ent>
+Was not Europe a caldron of political intrigue and corruption?
+Were not the people of <ent type='LOC'>Asia</ent>, <ent type='LOC'>Africa</ent> and <ent type='LOC'>Latin America</ent>
 suffering in squalor and ignorance, the victims of tribal
 despots and imperialist exploitors--easy prey to that even
 greater threat of <ent type='NORP'>communist</ent> propaganda and revolution?</p>
 
-<p><ent type='GPE'>America</ent>'s first crusade was in 1917, when <ent type='PERSON'>Woodrow Wilson</ent>,
-insisting that <ent type='GPE'>the United States</ent> had the moral duty to take
+<p>America's first crusade was in 1917, when <ent type='PERSON'>Woodrow Wilson</ent>,
+insisting that <ent type='GPE'>the United</ent> States had the moral duty to take
 the lead and "make the world safe for democracy," had asked
 for, and got, a declaration of war from <ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent>. <ent type='NORP'>Americans</ent>,
 however, were repulsed in the years following <ent type='EVENT'>World War</ent> I,
 when instead of democracy, they saw that all that came out of
 our participation in that noble crusade had been communism in
 <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent>, fascism in <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent>, <ent type='NORP'>Nazism</ent> in <ent type='GPE'>Germany</ent> and imperialist
-spoils for the victorious <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>an allies.</p>
+spoils for the victorious European allies.</p>
 
 <p>But <ent type='EVENT'>World War</ent> II seemed to offer the opportunity for a second
 chance. The <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> "arsenal of democracy" would free the
 world of <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> and <ent type='ORG'>Imperial Japan</ent> and then pursue an
 international course of permanent foreign intervention to
 create "a better world." What the world got was <ent type='EVENT'>the Cold War</ent>,
-with the <ent type='GPE'>Soviet Union</ent> gaining an Eastern <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>an empire, and
+with <ent type='GPE'>the Soviet Union</ent> gaining an <ent type='NORP'>Eastern</ent> European empire, and
 with <ent type='GPE'>China</ent> being lost behind what became known as the
 <ent type='NORP'>communist</ent> "Bamboo Curtain."</p>
 
-<p><ent type='GPE'>America</ent>'s rewards were global commitments that required
+<p>America's rewards were global commitments that required
 hundreds of thousands of <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> soldiers permanently
-stationed in <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>; two bloody wars in <ent type='LOC'>Asia</ent> that cost the
+stationed in Europe; two bloody wars in <ent type='LOC'>Asia</ent> that cost the
 lives of over a hundred thousand <ent type='NORP'>Americans</ent>; a huge defense
 budget that siphoned off hundreds of billions of dollars from
 the private sector for four decades; and even more tens of
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ became a tool for "priming the pump" and guaranteeing "full
 employment" through government expenditures.</p>
 
 <p>But communism is now dying under the weight of its own
-political corruption and economic failures. And the <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>an
+political corruption and economic failures. And the European
 and <ent type='LOC'>Asia</ent>n countries that benefited from decades of being on
 the <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> defense and foreign aid dole have decided they
 want to grow up and manage their own affairs.</p>
@@ -151,21 +151,21 @@ makers are petrified. The global social engineers in
 <ent type='GPE'>Washington</ent> are suddenly faced with a world that doesn't want
 to be under the tutelage of <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> paternalism and
 dominance. They are busy scrambling for some way to "keep
-<ent type='GPE'>America</ent> in <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>," maintain <ent type='GPE'>Washington</ent>'s political control
+<ent type='GPE'>America</ent> in Europe," maintain Washington's political control
 and influence over international affairs and guarantee that
 <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> will remain "in harm's way," potentially drawn into
 numerous controversies and conflicts around the world.</p>
 
-<p>If it is undesirable for <ent type='GPE'>the United States</ent> government to
+<p>If it is undesirable for <ent type='GPE'>the United</ent> States government to
 intervene in the economic and social affairs of its citizenry
 --as the advocate of individual freedom steadfastly believes
---then it is equally undesirable for <ent type='GPE'>the United States</ent>
+--then it is equally undesirable for <ent type='GPE'>the United</ent> States
 government to intervene in the internal affairs of other
 nations, or the conflicts that sometimes arise among nations.</p>
 
 <p>The first duty of the <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> government is to protect the
-life, liberty and property of the citizens of the United
-<ent type='GPE'>States</ent> from foreign aggressors. Once a government sets itself
+life, liberty and property of the citizens of <ent type='GPE'>the United</ent>
+States from foreign aggressors. Once a government sets itself
 the task of trying to rectify the errors and choices of its
 own citizens, it soon begins sliding down a slippery slope in
 which the end result is state supervision and regulation of
@@ -177,25 +177,25 @@ approve, or which we do not consider good or wise, so do other
 nations. But to follow the path of attempting to set the world
 straight can lead to nothing but perpetual intervention and
 war in the name of world peace and global welfare. And these
-have been precisely the results of <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>'s global crusade to
+have been precisely the results of America's global crusade to
 save the world since 1945.</p>
 
-<p>The end of communism, and the economic growth of <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent> and
+<p>The end of communism, and the economic growth of Europe and
 <ent type='LOC'>Asia</ent>, give us a new opportunity to foreswear the global
 welfare state, free ourselves from foreign political and
-military entanglements, and follow George <ent type='GPE'>Washington</ent>'s wise
+military entanglements, and follow George Washington's wise
 advice of free commercial relationships with all, but foreign
 alliances and intrigues with none.</p>
 
-<p>Professor <ent type='PERSON'>Ebeling</ent> is the <ent type='PERSON'>Ludwig von</ent> Mises Professor of
+<p>Professor Ebeling is the <ent type='PERSON'>Ludwig von</ent> Mises Professor of
 Economics at <ent type='ORG'>Hillsdale College</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Hillsdale</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Michigan</ent>, and also
 serves as vice-president of academic affairs of <ent type='ORG'>The Future</ent> of
-Freedom <ent type='ORG'>Foundation</ent>, P.O. Box 9752, <ent type='GPE'>Denver</ent>, CO 80209.
+Freedom Foundation, P.O. Box 9752, <ent type='GPE'>Denver</ent>, CO 80209.
 
 ------------------------------------------------------------
 From the November 1990 issue of <ent type='ORG'>FREEDOM DAILY</ent>,
-Copyright (c) 1990, <ent type='ORG'>The Future</ent> of Freedom <ent type='ORG'>Foundation</ent>,
+Copyright (c) 1990, <ent type='ORG'>The Future</ent> of Freedom Foundation,
 PO Box 9752, <ent type='GPE'>Denver</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Colorado</ent> 80209, 303-777-3588.
 Permission granted to reprint; please give appropriate credit
-and send one copy of reprinted material to the <ent type='ORG'>Foundation</ent>.
+and send one copy of reprinted material to the Foundation.
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