Face It! The American populace cannot see the pattern:
1. "If you like your doctors and current insurance plan, you can keep them." (Obama) [Of course, if you don't WANT doctors or insurance, you CAN'T keep that!]
2. "We must pass the bill to find out what's in it." (Pelosi)
3. "It's okay for government to ban books, because the government will never enforce it." (Marxist nominee to SCOTUS)
But even people here on FR glory in "democracy." China is called a "democratic peoples republic." North Korea is called a "democratic peoples republic."
Hello, Lenin's Communist Internationalle, effectively instituted in the USA(!) by the PEOPLE'S choice!
That was an interesting year, wasn’t it?
1789 The first Congress under the new Constitution meets at Federal Hall in New York (Mar. 4). George Washington is inaugurated as President (Apr. 30). The Judiciary Act creates the federal court system, and the departments of state, war, and treasury are created to compose the executive branch.
The Society of St. Tammany is organized in New York City by William Mooney as an Antifederalist political fraternity (May 12).
The French Revolution begins with the fall of the Bastille (July 14), an event witnessed by Thomas Jefferson, then minister to France.
President Washington transmits to the states the proposed amendments to the Constitution (Oct. 2). The states ratify ten of them as a Bill of Rights and reject two.
John Carroll, ordained the first Catholic bishop in America, founds Georgetown, the first Catholic university in America.
The University of North Carolina is founded.
William Hill Brown publishes the first American novel, The Power of Sympathy.
David Ramsay’s The History of the American Revolution, the first national history, is published.
The first national Thanksgiving Day is established, by Congress’s resolution and Washington’s proclamation, to give thanks for the Constitution; the Antifederalists object, claiming that this violates states’ rights (Nov. 26).