A series of images showing the word "citizens" analyzed under various wavelengths, with certain images enhanced by computer to make the underlying word "subjects" more apparent. (Image Credit: loc.gov)
Posted on 07/02/2010 10:08:50 AM PDT by Daffynition
WASHINGTON - Library of Congress officials say Thomas Jefferson made a Freudian slip while penning a rough draft of the Declaration of Independence.
In an early draft of the document, which is kept under lock and key in one of the Library's vaults, Jefferson referred to the American population as "subjects," then replaced it with the word "citizens," a term he used frequently throughout the final draft.
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A series of images showing the word "citizens" analyzed under various wavelengths, with certain images enhanced by computer to make the underlying word "subjects" more apparent. (Image Credit: loc.gov)
HMMMM.
Citizen appears ONE time in the final version.
“He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.”
Further, at the time of the drafting of the declaration, we WERE subjects of the King of England - so no freudian slip at all!
Typical New Age baloney to lessen a PERFECT document!
Interesting. I once heard that there was a little-known copy of the Constitution with the word “suckers” in it. Never could pin that one down, though.
I wonder if you could make a Freudian slip before there was a Freud.
I don’t think that meets the definition anyway. Whenever I write something I always find myself coming up with words that don’t quite mean what I wanted to say and then think of the right word in a later draft.
The word “suckers” appears in the penumbra of the Constitution. It’s right there next to the abortion section.
It’s in C. Montgomery Burns’ basement.
The Declaration ushered in a new era... even for Jefferson. As he penned it, they were subject to the Crown. The point of the document what to sever that connection. It wasn’t freudian... it was reality until he realized that their new reality of equality of all men also meant they were subject to no one. Simple edit... profound change.
You nailed it ;-)
And so we will again.
Apparently, it was written in disappearing ink. You need lemon juice and a hair dryer to read it.
At the time that Jefferson wrote it they were all still “subjects” of Great Britain on the verge of becoming “citizens” of a new nation....
No no no, that won't do now at all! How can we possibly imply that Jefferson regarded his fellow citizens as subjects if we allow such claims to stand? His "original intent" was that we are subjects and he disingenuously changed that to citizen to hid his real intent! Darn Old Dead White Man Slave Holder .....
As an old man Jefferson wrote to Adams that one of the few pleasures he had in growing old was seeing scientific progress. As a scientist Jefferson would have been extremely impressed to see his mistake discovered hundreds of years later.
Don't let Obama and Pelosi find out.
So what.... they were subjects, they then became citizens.
Sadly, today we are citizens, and if Obama and the democrats have their way, we will become subjects.
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