Hey, I'll stand up tall and proud and say I really thought that was in the constitution. So shoot me.
I've been corrected, and very surprised, and I appreciate the correction. Way I figger, if I got mixed up on that, yea somebody who participates regularly on a web site that is about freedom, etc, then I bet plenty of people do.
Now the rest of you can go on with the beatings followed by pats on the back at how smart you are, or you can smile and say you were glad to help.
I really am glad to know this, btw. And now that it was mentioned, give me a little credit, I do recall it was the first words in the DOI.
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I quote my own prior post. Guess you didn't choose the underlined part.
Sorry ... oh, and about this ...
I really am glad to know this, btw. And now that it was mentioned, give me a little credit, I do recall it was the first words in the DOI.
Actually the phrase you mistakenly attibuted to the Constitution doesn't appear until the second paragraph of the Declaration:
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Color me smiling and saying
I'm glad to help