[cripplecreek]

Thanks again Tom.

[Howie66]

I’ll bet that there is some numbnuts in this regime that wants to change it back.......

[Enchante]

"But in a moment when history took a sharp turn...."

this is sloppy thinking and fatuous wording by this reporter ---- the drafting of the Declaration of Independence and the resolution of independence which gave rise to it was "the moment when" HUMANS (i.e., Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, and their fellow new "citizens") took "history" into their own hands. It was not "history" as some vague impersonal causal force which created the DofI. That is the kind of quasi-Hegelian, neo-Marxist tripe which passes for "thought" among the progressive left.

That very moment, when Jefferson and his colleagues deciding that no longer would they be described as "subjects" of a King, that is the very moment in which "history" was made by real Americans --- they made "history" not vice-versa.

granted, it was not literally one "moment" in that it took more than Jefferson over-writing the word "subjects" --- but that was exactly the intellectual-moral-political process occuring in June-July 1776. Until then, everyone in the "colonies" could be regarded as "subjects" of the British King. After the resolution of independence on July 2 and the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, we were no longer "subjects" but rather "citizens" (John Adams considered July 2 the most important date to celebrate since that was the day on which the Continental Congress adopted the "resolution" for independence).

[rockinqsranch]

To protect the Constitution of the United States of America is to protect the Citizens of the United States of America. Something that apparently has been forgotten at the Representative level that is government.

We must remind them this November.

[plangent]

Even Jefferson, acclimated as he was to a concept of Crown and man, caught the tea party sentiment. God bless you, sir!

[stansblugrassgrl]

Subjects are ruled. Citizens are governed by consent. Big difference.