The Constitution did not guarantee the redistribution-ism of communism.
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The Declaration of Independence has no legal standing. The government was organized by the laws of the individual colonies plus the Articles of Confederation adopted November 15, 1777.
The Declaration of Independence was a propaganda document intended to garner support of foreign powers by legitimating the War of Independence.
“all men are created equal” was an objection to the special legal privileges of nobility and to the divine right of kings.
I’m just glad Americans were intelligent enough to NOT NAME IT, Julyteenth or Quatro de Julio. That’s retarded as hell.
It was originally “Life, Liberty, and Property”.
I make it a point not to call it the Fourth of July. I call it Independence Day.
This reminded me it’s been forty-seven years since The Bicentennial.
Yikes.
bttt
The foundational date of our “new order” was canonized as 1776. Yet note it was not some pretentious Jacobin “Year 1”—as if everything in the past was to be erased.
This is not true. Though the practice did not last, the Constitution says in the Signatory section:
Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth. In Witness whereof We have hereunto subscribed our Names.
"The Twelfth" refers to the 12th year since the Declaration of Independence, adhering to Christian religious traditions of Western civilization's practice of dating important documents relative to some milestone date.
See this section from The Heritage Foundation Guide to the Constitution, the Attestation Clause for details. I'm surprised that Dr. Hanson missed this factoid.
-PJ