(February 22, 2014 at 4:30 am)Jacob(smooth) Wrote: A new document is penned which whilst claiming to be merely an extension of base principles, would have actually completely condemned and forbidden the circumstances and actions which formed the nation.
Acutally, the wholesale genocide of the Native Americans that was a result of American colonization lasted well over one hundred years after the constitution was implemented.
What they really meant was "all white, non-Irish men of European descent are created equal."
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell