RE: Is America built on a lie?
October 21, 2011 at 12:18 am
(This post was last modified: October 21, 2011 at 12:59 am by DeistPaladin.)
(October 20, 2011 at 7:59 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Courtesy of BBC News:
Is the US Declaration of Independence illegal?
So if we can settle this out of court, do we get our country back?
Hmmmm, excuse me. I'm going to think about this for a moment.
Universal health care
Great arts community, if London is any indication
Multiple political parties
Great comedy
Less religion
OK, you've got my attention.
Quote:Oh well, we could evict the tenants;
Presumably you refer to the knuckle-dragging, slope-brow, inbred, Fox-watching, Tea-bagging, red-neck dumbasses that keep electing Republicans and wrecking things in my country.
Hmmmm.
(singing) "God save our noble queen..."
Oh, by the way, another piece of historical trivia:
Our Constitution isn't legal either, according to the original Articles of Confederation.
American history books sometimes gloss over this point but our founder's first attempt at creating a nation was a dismal failure. We feared a central government and the power of the executive so much we created an ineffectual loose knit confederation of states. The union between states was so tenuous that at one point, two of them very nearly went to war with each other.
in 1787, several years after we were recognized by Britain as independent, our founders hit the "do over" button and created what we now know as our Constitution. This was technically not a legal document, since the Articles of Confederation required unanimous consent by the 13 states. As I remember, we were one state short at that time.
Sorry for the lack of details. I'm going by memory of my college course from 23 years ago.
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