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Article #512Re: Not one person in WWII said"...under God"
From: Merlin Dorfman
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 22:45
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 22:45
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Mike Smith (mws@wt.net) wrote:
: On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 05:55:51 GMT, Jeffrey E. Salzberg
: <jeff.salzberg@verizon.net> wrote:
: >In article
: ><4AA4B5926FD72087.C45E216DC1978D95.60A4712512693AF5@lp.airnews.net>,
: >mws@wt.net says...
: >
: >> You poor ignorant dumbass.......... I never stated that it was "in the
: >> Constitution", I stated that our Government had acknowledged a Supreme
: >> Being over 2 centuries ago.
: >>
: >> From the Declaration of Independence as presented in Congress July 4,
: >> 1776:<begin quote>
: >
: >
: >The Declaration was not an instrument of "our governmant", as it predated
: >by several years the constitution, which is the document that defines our
: >government.
: Come on, Jeffrey..... Paine's an imbecile; you have "some" sense. Did
: you miss the "in Congress" part? Congress was a part of our government
: back in 1776.
Mike, you surprise me. You usually have your facts more or less
correct though your interpretations and conclusions are screwed up.
But the Continental Congress, in which the DoI was written, was not an
instrument of government at all; it was a debating society. To the
extent to which the colonies had self-government (which wasn't much,
they were mostly run by governors appointed by the king of England),
the representatives to the Continental Congress may or may not have
been any part of that self-government, but if so, those were
completely separate duties. The Continental Congress made no laws,
enforced no laws, interpreted no laws...if you saw the musical
"1776," the phrase "piddle, twiddle, and resolve" was used.
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