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To: DiogenesLamp
DiogenesLamp: "The MAIN truth. The thesis of the entire document is that People have a right to self government."

Of course, I understand, that's what you wish it said, because that might support your pro-Confederate ideology.
And to support your argument, you can produce exactly one word, quoted from the Declaration: "should", which you interpret to mean "should not", and therefore nothing else the Declaration actually says matters to you, does it?

But outside your Lost Cause pro-Confederate fantasies, the actual declaration says something entirely different, the core of which is this:

Nowhere did any Founder ever propose or support and unlimited "right of secession" at pleasure.

And that's why the Confederacy was illegitimate from Day One of its conception, all your fantasies to the contrary notwithstanding.

152 posted on 01/08/2025 2:59:03 AM PST by BroJoeK (future DDG 134 -- we remember)
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To: BroJoeK
Of course, I understand, that's what you wish it said, because that might support your pro-Confederate ideology.

It does say that, whether it supports "pro-confederate ideology" or not. I don't acknowledge the truth of things because it might support my view, I acknowledge the truth of things because they are true.

And to support your argument, you can produce exactly one word, quoted from the Declaration: "should", which you interpret to mean "should not", and therefore nothing else the Declaration actually says matters to you, does it?

I didn't create the English language, but in whatever language we use, the concept of "should", is not the concept of "Shall."

You keep trying to substitute "Shall", as in a command, for "should", which is a suggestion.

Either learn your English, or learn some honesty.

157 posted on 01/08/2025 7:05:13 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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