BroJoeK? Is that you? :)
You edited the text.
I copied and pasted. Go back and look for yourself.
As for the rest of your spiel, I believe JeffersonDem has thoroughly thrashed out the proof that "domestic insurrections" referred to slave rebellions which people thought might be triggered by Lord Dunmore's proclamations.
>> I copied and pasted. Go back and look for yourself. <<
Yes, you copied and pasted a selected PORTION of a sentence, so as to rob the sentence of its context, so you could apply a false context.
Right here!
DiogenesLamp: "I copied and pasted."
Of course, I don't object to "copy & paste", but some of our other posters are not quite so... ah, understanding.
DiogenesLamp: "I believe JeffersonDem has thoroughly thrashed out the proof that 'domestic insurrections' referred to slave rebellions which people thought might be triggered by Lord Dunmore's proclamations."
jeffersondem has only expressed his opinion that "domestic insurrections" referred to non-existent slave rebellions, rebellions which were never "excited" by Lord Dunmore or anyone else.
But jeffersondem has "thrashed out" nothing, "proof" or otherwise.
The more likely explanation is that our Founders went to pains to keep slavery out of their Declaration, and so "domestic insurrections" referred to actual insurrections by American loyalists to Britain, of which there were several in the months before July 4, 1776.