Posted on 04/27/2015 5:57:01 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
"We the people, in order to form a more perfect union."
Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these simple words, launched America's improbable experiment in democracy. Farmers and scholars; statesmen and patriots who had traveled across an ocean to escape tyranny and persecution finally made real their declaration of independence at a Philadelphia convention that lasted through the spring of 1787.
The document they produced was eventually signed but ultimately unfinished. It was stained by this nation's original sin of slavery, a question that divided the colonies and brought the convention to a stalemate until the founders chose to allow the slave trade to continue for at least twenty more years, and to leave any final resolution to future generations.
Of course, the answer to the slavery question was already embedded within our Constitution - a Constitution that had at is very core the ideal of equal citizenship under the law; a Constitution that promised its people liberty, and justice, and a union that could be and should be perfected over time.
And yet words on a parchment would not be enough to deliver slaves from bondage, or provide men and women of every color and creed their full rights and obligations as citizens of the United States. What would be needed were Americans in successive generations who were willing to do their part - through protests and struggle, on the streets and in the courts, through a civil war and civil disobedience and always at great risk - to narrow that gap between the promise of our ideals and the reality of their time.
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Spit.
STFUBO.
"I prefer not to."
-- Bartleby, the Scrivener
Once more, with feeling: What would be needed were Americans in successive generations who were willing to do their part - through protests and struggle, on the streets and in the courts, through a civil war and civil disobedience and always at great risk - to narrow that gap between the promise of our ideals and the reality of their time.
spit. lol. don’t know why I found that so funny lol
yeah same old blah blah blah
the march for justice goes on!!! blah blah
grow up, get a job and shut up!!
not you, lol, Obama’s people
The founders did not launch an experiment in democracy. They founded a republic and worked hard to prevent a democracy - something they realized to be quite dangerous. Also, what difference does America’s slave history make to an apparent illegal alien who certainly never experienced life as a slave or as an American black man, anyway? He’s patently without any “street Fred” to be talking about it, more or less berating us about it. No credibility at all And very little genuine concern, otherwise he wouldn’t have made so many American blacks’ lives so much more miserable these last six years.
True! But they're Democrats, of course they'll say America is supposed to be a Democracy. Only Republicans say it's supposed to be a Republic.
The Founders successfully avoided the mistake of creating a democracy, but the Democrats just don't get that.
A lady asked Dr. Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got? A republic or a monarchy?" "A republic," replied the Doctor, "if you can keep it."No mention of a democracy.
indeed. correct.
(perhaps a product of poor schooling?)
Your "charity" is showing. :)
"Poor schooling" certainly, but rather than simply inadequate educating, I would tend to blame intentional indoctrination.
But then I suppose I'm less charitable.
ha!
well its probably both.
a lot of the schools are turning out kids who know almost nothinga about the constitution or our republic or poiltical science in general, also they cant “read or rite or do rithmetic,” ha! and they can’t discuss or analyse ideas hardly at all.
perfect future sheeple?
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