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Article #531Re: Not one person in WWII said"...under God"
From: Merlin Dorfman
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 16:21
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 16:21
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Monte (montep@email.com) wrote:
: Actually Merlin, the Continental Congress was a body of governmental
: authority. They were enfranchised to issue monies, hire generals and
: generally oversee the logisstics of the Revolution. So Mike S. is
: partially correct, but you are also.<grin> The Continental Congress
: was under the authority of the colonies. Only the loosely written and
: sometimes unwritten agreements between the various colonies allowed
: the Continental Congress to exist and do the collective business of
: conducting a war.
Who enfranchised the CC to issue money and collect taxes? And
when?
Before 7/4/76, the CC was a voluntary debating society
consisting of those who wanted to attend. After the DoI, the CC was
in the business of running a war, which is certainly a governmental
function; but the point is they assumed these powers themselves by
declaring independence. Only after England's authority had been
explicitly rejected did the colonies have any authority on their
own to undertake these agreements.
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