They have my ear, that is for sure.
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You ought to consider reading the text of this Constitution though.
Why is that in the text of the Virginia Constitution?
Good post, thx PA
“These things are good for me, the King, and what you need is irrelevant so your laws are irrelevant and vetoed”
Sort of like what’s happening now in the UK, where the citizens want to stop illegal aliens from invading their country, but the king (Prime Minister) veto’s it.
The political leaders of the UK are against it’s own people. That is a fact.
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That is very impressive. I confess I was unaware of it.
Very strange, then, that, after independence, slavery was not banned either in the US or Virginia.
Not for 2 generations and, in part, took a very bloody war to do so.
This truly is a communist plot. The communists want to weaken America. A main cause of revolutions is lack of justice in the courts and legal system.
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This is a piece of supporting evidence for the fact that white people of that era did *NOT* want black people in their society. Many will read that as a rejection of slavery, but the wording implies it is a rejection of black people, which fits with other things i've read over the years.
"but when we consider that it greatly retards the Settlement of the Colonies with more useful Inhabitants,"
"More useful inhabitants"? Do they mean white people? Other Europeans? More supporting evidence that they did not want black people among them.
Because the king kept interfering with early American abolitionism,...
You can read it that way, and for some people of that era, this is likely true, but for most, I think, the great objection is to bringing black people into their communities. They didn't want them.
I've read that a lot of the people of that era considered them "evil", "Unclean" "of the devil", and "punished by God". People were very religious back then, and they were prone to believing all sorts of things that we wouldn't accept nowadays.
You only want to look at Pollyanna versions of history. You ignore anything that is ugly.
I wish I could, but I have much experience with human nature, and it is usually a mistake to impart noble motives to people when so much of what they do indicates they will be a snake if given half a chance.
There are two interesting items in the 1776 Constitution for the State of Virginia. The first one is in the second paragraph and it reads as follows:Whereas George the Third, King of Great Britain and Ireland, and Elector of Hanover, heretofore intrusted with the exercise of the Kingly Office in this Government, hath endeavoured to pervert the same into a detestable and insupportable Tyranny; by putting his negative on laws the most wholesome and necessary for the publick good;
That is in the Preamble, not the text of the Constitution as adopted. The Virginia Constitution of 1776 was adopted June 29, 1776, prior to the Declaration of Independence. Virginia declared its independence prior to the DoI.