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"One of the great founding principles of our country was that children would not be punished for the mistakes of their parents."
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Well, if anyone should know about founding principles, it's Eric Cantor:
"Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me." -- Exodus 20:5