[tsowellfan]

To this day Rome and Madrid are in dispute about who has claims on the United States. At some point we will be living under one of them.

Which would you prefer?

[Happy Rain]

In 1481 Pope Alexander VI decreed that all lands 100 leagues West and South of the Azores belong to Spain.

Many things have happened since then but it appears the spawn of Spain are fulfilling the papal bull to the detriment of the English experiment called the US Constitution.

There are always exceptions but on average,which colonies have become the most successful countries—the Spanish or the British? I would prefer to to live under what works but that was and is still a revolutionary thought.

[Cronos]

you mean lisbon and madrid...