[jeffersondem]

“Because you've never had one positive thing to say about my country. Because you continually disparage and defame my country. Because you voice your disdain for America and Americans. That's why I consider you anti-American.”

So it wasn't my lack of enthusiasm for the two million page Federal Register in post 5 but rather something previously imagined for which you are nursing a one-way grudge?

Perhaps there is still common ground. Let's salute on this day the principles written of by the great southerner Thomas Jefferson: "That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed . . ."

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Perhaps there is still common ground. Let's salute on this day the principles written of by the great southerner Thomas Jefferson: "That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed . . ."

The Confederate constitution explicitly established slavery. Does that mean the Confederate government was explicitly unjust because it lacked the consent of the slaves?