Posted on 07/04/2016 10:27:49 PM PDT by Nachum
Has America spent the last few hundred years misunderstanding the Declaration of Independence? That's what Danielle Allen, a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, believes.
According to Allen, the paragraph beginning 'We hold these truths to be self-evident' has been misinterpreted thanks to a rogue period that was not in the original document.
And that could completely transform our understanding of how the Founding Fathers viewed the role of government, The New York Times reported.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Autocorrect
The missing period is another ‘autocorrect’ error, the Founders had to deal with writing the Declaration Of Indepen dance.
There it goes again.
original? possibly:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3176381/posts
same author called Trump the next Hitler:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3403889/posts
Seriously, obtaining an ORIGINAL copy of the Constitution is difficult at best. NOT the fake Corporate post Civil War version.
Few people are aware of the deceptive fake Corporate Constitution.
Must be a picture not text.
Who certifies it?? Your lying govt?
Nice try, “Professor”.
No dice.
>Kind of circular if you follow Danielles thinking.
Well, there you go...believing Danielle THINKS.
Pretty such that diploma from a Cracker-Jack’s box is pretty convincing. /s
What the heck is your problem?
She’s arguing that the founders thought “that governments are instituted among men to secure these rights,” is “self-evident.”
Duh. Not sure where it gets her.
Now if she had found an invisible ink insertion that crossed out the above language and inserted “That governments are instituted among men to rule them without limit and to enrich those who serve and their friends,” she might really have something that supports our modern American State.
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