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3 posted on 07/02/2010 10:11:32 AM PDT by Daffynition (There is no other cheese.)
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They say, never watch how they make hot-dogs (especially if you like them) pass laws, the creating process not very pretty to look at.
I wouldn't call Jefferson's use of the term "subjects" so much as Freudian slip as merely one of cultural usage, familiarity, upbringing whereby the term for everyday members of society were referred to as "subjects" in a land ruled by a King.
11 posted on 07/02/2010 10:20:45 AM PDT by lbryce (Obama Notwithstanding, America's Best Days Are Yet To Be .)
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Only the one that was ratified and signed, counts. The others are rough drafts and done by someone who had been one of the King's "subjects".

Old habits are hard to break. My old, Southern grandmother never, ever referred to my bike as a "bicycle", or "bike"...she called it a "wheel". When I rode over to her house, she would ask, "Did you come over her on your wheel?. Obviously a holdover from her childhood when people rode those big wheel bikes, and I think they did call them "wheels" then.
22 posted on 07/02/2010 10:43:16 AM PDT by FrankR ( If we don't stand up to tyranny, the tyrants win, and we're enslaved.)
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