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To: jeffersondem
If you think the term “domestic insurrections”, as used by Thomas Jefferson in the context of the Declaration of Independence means something else, I am interested it learning about it.

The British also encouraged Tory military action and that would qualify as "domestic insurrections" in the revolutionists' eyes, but I really don't think you are interested in hearing about that.

P.S. If I post to you because of something you say, feel free to post back to me, but I don't need to have you posting to me everytime somebody else says something you disagree with.

902 posted on 05/29/2018 4:08:33 PM PDT by x
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To: x
“The British also encouraged Tory military action and that would qualify as “domestic insurrections” in the revolutionists’ eyes, but I really don't think you are interested in hearing about that.”

The original draft contained this grievance: “he has excited treasonable insurrections of our fellow-citizens, with the allurement of forfeiture & confiscation of our property.”

Thomas Jefferson later explained why this and other statements directed at British citizens were struck: “The pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England worth keeping terms with, still haunted the minds of many. For this reason those passages which conveyed censures on the people of England were struck out, lest they should give them offense.”

To my knowledge, Jefferson didn't say the statements were rewritten in code so no one could understand them and be offended. The man said, “struck out.”

903 posted on 05/29/2018 4:26:42 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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Still indulging the nitwit I see. You know you’re only encouraging him to more of his foolishness.

Carry on.


905 posted on 05/29/2018 5:55:42 PM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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