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Rethinking the Declaration of Independence

Bruce2142 Wrote: Jul 04, 2010 8:07 AM
Wow! I had forgotten this aspect of the Declaration of Independence. Thanks for the reminder, Brion! Retired Geek; Excellent take. We have a governor's race heating up here in MN. The three demonrats on the usual "raise taxes on the rich screw the poor further", are as follows: 1. A women that grew up on a farm and whose husband is a farmer, that is used to sucking off of the government teat in the form of subsidies. 2. A trust fund baby, whose family ran one of the largest retail stores and founded the Target retail chain, so he sits in the lap of luxury, while he decries it for others. 3. A moron lawyer whose wife that is employed be a very large HMO and made millions on insider trading and who, in a previous election, paid an out...

Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1825 that he intended the Declaration of Independence to be “an expression of the American mind, and to give to that expression the proper tone and spirit called for by the occasion.” Yet, he did not propose the Declaration should “find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of….” The last statement is the clearest articulation of what Jefferson and other members of the founding generation thought of the Declaration. It was a restatement of the rights of Englishmen, modeled in large part by previous works of English and American law. The Declaration was...

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