[An.American.Expatriate]

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!

[gthog61]

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.

[Daffynition]

Exactly. The summer interns at Fox have completly taken over the news room.

[katana]

It actually may represent a dawning in the mind of Jefferson, mid-sentence, that with this document the whole relationship between individuals and government is turned on its head from what had been accepted for thousands of years before. For an historian this is like an astronomer seeing a snapshot of the Big Bang.

People in Europe, even in those countries which have no royal heads of state, still behave like "subjects" instead of "citizens". Our revolution was based on a profound reordering of some very ancient ideas. God - the People - the Government versus God (although He has been largely removed from the equation in modern Europe) - the Government - the People.

Obama, Reid, Nancy Pelosi and their ilk may act like our overlords but only in violation of this fundamental concept and only so long as we permit the charade.