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To: ifinnegan
It means you don’t understand English. “Dedicated to the proposition”

So you are saying our "New Government" in 1776 was "dedicated to the proposition" that all their slaves should go free?

So why didn't they do that? The history doesn't show them to be dedicated to that proposition at all. It shows them to be dedicated to the proposition that they should be free of England, and able to govern themselves, much as the Southern states tried to do.

They kept their slaves. They didn't free them. It was years later before the first states even started trying to free them.

50 posted on 02/12/2024 12:47:39 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp

Dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Proposition.

It’s the philosophical Christian foundation of the United States.


56 posted on 02/12/2024 1:24:10 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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