Posted on 11/01/2010 9:53:43 PM PDT by smokingfrog
If he becomes governor of Colorado, Tea Partier Dan Maes will remind citizens that "freedom originates in a Supreme Ruler of the Universe," according to his Web site. In her campaign materials, New Jersey congressional candidate and Tea Partier Anna C. Little rhapsodizes the "inalienable rights by our Creator, among them Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" and touts strict border control as "the first step in the process of regaining control of our Republic." As you read these sentences, your first question is surely: Why do these and other Tea Party candidates hold the rules of capitalization in such contempt?
Capitalizing heavily today is, then, like wearing a tricorn hat or calling your interest group the Tea Party. The point is to hark back to better times, to establish your politics as more authentically American, and to associate yourself with the Founding Fathers. "To restore America we need less Marx and more Madison," Glenn Beck likes to say. More Capitals, less Das Kapital!
What capital-ist Tea Partiers fail to realize, however, is that their orthography imitates not Thomas Jefferson and James Madison but the far-less famous Timothy Matlack and Jacob Shallus—a couple of secretaries. No one played a larger role in crafting the Declaration and the Constitution than Jefferson and Madison, respectively, but it was Matlack and Shallus who hand wrote the official, signed versions of these documents and freely recapitalized them as they saw fit.
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
This passes for wit in liberal circles?
Must be a slow news day when someone complains about uppercase letters.
Well she did capitalize pursuit........
He’ll have plenty of things to complain about tomorrow. Let him have his rant.
Could it just possibly be because that’s the way it’s written in the Constitution?
what u b doing u got 2 c this
ee cummings mode
Now you've gone and done it. The author, John Lackman, will be pissed you lifted words from an Obama speech without attribution.
When exactly did “uppercase” become a verb?
The kind of article you write on the eve of the electorate handing you your ass on a silver platter....
... because there is a difference between god and God. The left knows that, and it is why they cant ... no ... wont ... acknowledge it. The use of capitals is indicative of specific meaning. To say man has certain inalienable rights is not the same as Man has certain inalienable rights. The first could be a gender, but the second means a genus. If man has certain inalienable rights, then wo-man may not have those same rights.
Maybe the same day "costed" became a word...
This guy seems to think that the secretaries went crazy with the capitalization, but they did so on the original copy that the members of the Continental Congress signed. One would think that those learned men would have insisted that the document be correct as written. They weren’t like today’s Congressmen that don’t read what they vote yea on.
Apparently so, and there seems to be no Lack of Nitwits in the Comments Section.
This really should be benchmarked.
It all started with those who drank of the Charles River. Somehow, it caused them to move the "r"s from the middle of their words to the end.
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