Oh oh....typo...Sounds like a call to Dan Rather is in order.
This sentence reads like satire. This should be funny, but it's disgusting.
And of course no one at the time, 1776 discovered the error.
So are the “Federalist Papers” a typo too?
Not enough information but “Typo”? Typewriter were not invented for a couple hundred years after the Constitution was written, probably with quill pens. Lets go to the original signed document to see what the law really is and leave the sensationalism behind.
No REAL historian would say any such thing...particularly given the background and copious writings of the Founding Fathers and/or signers.
I suspect Danny Boy Rather would rather stay out of this tempest in a teapot.
Reading the words “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” as used by the Founders, the phrase which follows is clear and unambiguous whether or not any punctuation precedes it.
This argument started as a valid historical document examination and publication of a hypothesis. Thanks to America having allowed a plague of lawyers upon the face of the land, and having tolerated commies beyond number in the agencies and among the Academented, this debate now reeks of the agenda driven seeking a peg on which to hang their totalitarian helmet.
George Washington didn’t just talk to the abusive English “swarm of officers sent hither”, when goaded beyond toleration,he and the Americans he led, shot them.
Obamoids think history ended with their glorious assumption of power. End the end, it will be as it must be -
History: 1
Obamoids: 0
I just happen to have a photo copy of that document (given out everywhere back in 1976). This is what it says....
” ...the pursuit of Happiness.- That to secure these rights Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,- ...”
Please notice the first break has .- and the second has ,- that is, a period on the first, and a comma on the second.
The American colonists were not unaware that they were regarded as back-country rubes by their English "betters" and would have been hyper-aware of the presentation of the document.
What a monumentally stupid broad this "historian" is.
The stupid hurts.
1. This is the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution of the United States, so even a change would not "constitutionally" justify big government.
2. While the upper case T in "That" is not conclusive (upper case was common mid-sentence due to the German influence on grammar in that century), the period is clearly in the right location and of the right size. There is no indication in the form of the mark that this is anything but an intentional punctuation mark. Further, the presence of the same mark in multiple previous drafts is essentially conclusive proof that the sentence was intended to end at that point.
UNMITIGATED BULLSHIIT.
"The capital T in the word That should end any controversy. It is the beginning of a new sentence.
Typewriter were not invented for a couple hundred years after the Constitution was written, probably with quill pens."
Good observations freepers!
For what it's worth, there's related issues with the Constitution, issues which have been noted. The problem with the Constitution is that it was hand-written, intermediate revisions of Constitution before final draft probably not destroyed like they should have been. Multiple versions of the 2nd Amendment are an example. Have a look.
Second Amendment to the United States Constitution
Along with that "truth" comes the czar and fetters. It's the 1960s Marxist-Alinsky campus radical, psycho spoiled brat The Fetteralist Capers.
So a progressive professor (redundant I know) finds what she thinks is a typo on a 240 year old document that gives MASSIVE power to the government but can’t find a single anomaly on Obama’s birth certificate.
The only protection of those rights is supposed to be founded in the Constitution itself, not the government structure it lays out and particularly not a functioning government which makes of itself a higher right than the individual rights the Constitution is founded to protect. The protection of THAT CONSTITUTION and its individual rights is the OBLIGATION of the government, above any political prerogatives or policy ambitions of those elected or appointed to the government.
Look at the original writing. There is a period and a dash....in fact there are several of them. Its a technique...a period and a pause. Almost like a new paragraph.
Totally pathetic and bogus. Whether it’s a comma or a period, it alters the meaning not one iota.
Just some Statists grasping at straws.