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To: DiogenesLamp

Gee, why don’t you want to discuss why a certain inalienable right attains only to certain bodies of “the People” and not to others? It couldn’t be because you don’t have a good answer, could it?


235 posted on 07/07/2015 3:23:29 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels."--Tom Waits)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

Two words: West Virginia.


236 posted on 07/07/2015 3:24:18 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep
Gee, why don’t you want to discuss why a certain inalienable right attains only to certain bodies of “the People” and not to others?

Oh, I dunno, maybe because that is what the facts of history amply demonstrate? Why do you want to deliberately lie and say that it did?

What possible kernel of evidence do you have that the Declaration was intended by it's authors and signatories to apply to slaves?

I would think that the fact there was not a mass abolition of slavery by all the signatories on the day of the signing ought to be pretty good evidence that it was not, but if that wasn't sufficient, I would have thought that four score and seven years of subsequent history ought to have done the trick.

What we have here with people like yourself, is a Liberal interpretation of History and the "living constitution" phenomena as applied to the Declaration. It means whatever you want it to mean, because you change it's meaning after the fact to suit your own preferences.

242 posted on 07/07/2015 3:38:39 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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