Re: What Happened to The 56 Men Who Signed the Declarationof Independence ?

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Sun, 8 Jul 2007, Brian Loe wrote:

> Quite frankly, one of the good ideas that was batted around
> back-in-the-day was that only land owners have a vote. Not completely
> unreasonable, IMHO.
>
> Also, the original wording was, "life, liberty and property" -
> property, after all, being happiness.
>
> But, for what its worth, they still rape this phrase today. A Mexican,
> here legally or not, is still made by his maker and the owner of these
> same rights. The argument then becomes whether or not our Constitution
> covers them. So, for instance, I would have already made Iraq and
> Afghanistan a state or protectorate of the U.S.  - with all of those
> rights, to include our Constitution. 

We tried that, called it "The British Empire". They didn't like it then, 
they won't like it now.

> Certainly wouldn't have done any
> worse...and there's a good argument that things might be better.
>
> On 7/7/07, Dude VanWinkle <dudevanwinkle () gmail com> wrote:
>
> > "all white male christan landowners are endowed//"
 
You have to remember that all this ""Declaration of Independence stuff was
just war propaganda. I doubt if anyone meant it to be taken seriously.

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