BS
Its a load of crap. There were no standards of punctuation or spelling in those days
As has been pointed out several times since this new round of rubbish was circulated, the ‘W’ is capitalized following the purport in k stain, therefore the stain is not a ‘period’, it is in fact a stain.
NY Times is a toxic waste.
UNMITIGATED HORSE MANURE. Scholar, my azz.
Brought to you by the same people who read the 2nd amendment and see nothing wrong with Chicago and NYC total gun ban..
Leftists never stop being crazy
Aw geeez, Edith ...
Now they are going to try to use grammar in order to “bootstrap” the government into a position of more influence in our lives ...
Yes, and actually it really really reads “The Decleration of Dependence”
Thomas Jefferson lived for 50 years (to the day) after the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
I think, if upon one of the hundreds if not thousands of times he read it or heard it read, he did not say “Whoa! Wait a second. That isn’t what I intended!”, that declaration would have been reported somewhere.
Well we have certainly lost the conection that’s for sure. And I’m not feelin the love either :-)
http://www.sss.ias.edu/faculty/allen
Danielle Allen is a political theorist who has published broadly in democratic theory, political sociology, and the history of political thought. Widely known for her work on justice and citizenship in both ancient Athens and modern America, Allen is the author of The World of Prometheus: the Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens (2000), Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown vs. the Board of Education (2004), Why Plato Wrote (2010), and Our Declaration (2014) and co-editor (with Rob Reich) of Education, Justice, and Democracy (2013). In 2002 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for her "ability to combine the classicist’s careful attention to texts and language with the political theorist’s sophisticated and informed engagement." She is currently working on books on citizenship in the digital age and political equality and directs The Democratic Knowledge Project, a group of research projects on knowledge and democracy. Among these is HULA, a project on assessment in the humanities and liberal arts. Allen is a frequent public lecturer and regular guest on public radio affiliates to discuss issues of citizenship and education policy, as well as a contributor on similar subjects to the Washington Post, Boston Review, Democracy, Cabinet, and The Nation.
AB, Princeton University, 1993; Ph.D., Classics, Cambridge University, 1996; Ph.D., Government, Harvard University, 2001; Assistant Professor, Classics, University of Chicago, 1997-2000; Associate Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures, Political Science and the Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago, 2000-03; Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures, Political Science and the Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago, 2003-07; Dean, Division of Humanities, University of Chicago, 2004-07; UPS Foundation Professor Institute for Advanced Study, 2007-; MacArthur Fellowship, 2002; Trustee, Amherst College, Pulitzer Prize Board, Mellon Foundation, and Princeton University; Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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These are the same fools that say that the 2A is only for muskets that load one ball at a time, and are used only for sustenance hunting.
If that is the case, then the 1A only covers soap box speeches without a microphone, and newspapers printed on an old style printing press, and the Protestant Religion.
They are so full of %^&# that it is embarrassing to those of us with even a modicum of education.
One would think the reporter might have printed the two versions of the sentence in question.
As I read the his sentence, it appears as if he defines four “truths” which are self evident... 1. All men are created equal, 2. they are endowed, by their creator, with rights, among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, 3. governments are established to secure those rights and 4. if that government becomes oppressive, the people have the right to abolish it and form a new one that isn’t. It is rather odd, to me, that the first two rights begin with “thats” which are not capitalized, but the second two “thats” are capitalized even though, grammatically, the sentence has not ended.
The Congress didn’t much care what Jefferson had to say anyway, thus the story of Ben Franklin consoling him with the story of the hatter. Also the removal of the entire section of the most Christian King of Great Britain being responsible for the slave trade.
What Danielle Allen is responsible for is fallaciously and maybe slanderously attributing e-mails regarding the birth certificate to two illustrious Freepers in the “fight the smears” campaign of candidate Obama in 2008.
This isn't going to change anything...
By removing the period it becomes clear that government comes from the people by their own consent and to serve them. It makes it clear WHY government exists.
The progressive idea is that the people serve the government, that their consent doesn't matter, and the people can be used by the government for some other purpose.
Total BS!!! Just another scheme of the verminous, evil left.
More BS from the PhD (pile it higher and deeper) crowd.
I am going to post a semi-vanity to bring forgetful, slumbering Freepers up to date on what a slanderous vicious enemy this woman was to this site in general and to several freepers by name in 2008