Re: Not one person in WWII said"...under God"

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From: Monte
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 20:04

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On 1 Jul 2002 16:21:29 GMT, Merlin Dorfman <dorfman@rahul.net> wrote:

>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.

I believe the last sentence of my post covers that issue.

Monte
"Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books,
 and there is some evidence that they can't read them either." ---Gore Vidal

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Subject: Re: Not one person in WWII said"...under God"
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