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)
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.
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.
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....
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.
It was on this date in 1776 that Congress voted for independence, and John Adams thought that the second day of July would be celebrated as a holiday with bonfires, fireworks, etc. Instead, of course, the date that the declaration was adopted became Independence Day.
there is a reason it’s called a DRAFT.
So, he changed the subjects?
This is not news. How can LOC get this wrong? Taking credit for someone else’s work. What?
http://www.princeton.edu/~tjpapers/declaration/declaration.html#_ednref10
Check out footnote #10
