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To: Pelham

While perhaps interesting those comments ignore the critical difference in the situations.

We never consented to be subjects of the King. That is why we constituted a government to which we were to be citizens and to which we consented.

Similarity between those statements is not even interesting since the King could well have believed his words. And the president is an executive like the King.


86 posted on 08/13/2018 1:32:12 PM PDT by arrogantsob (See "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
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To: arrogantsob

“We never consented to be subjects of the King.”

That’s not an argument that the American founders made. It’s an objection invented in recent times that gets repeated as if it were something that they believed.

The founders were born subjects of the Crown. And as they say in their 1774 Petition and the 1775 Olive Branch Proclamation they remained loyal subjects. They simply wanted their rights as British subjects respected by London.

That was the root of their grievance. Russell Kirk wrote about this in his argument that the American Revolution was conservative in nature.


87 posted on 08/13/2018 1:46:36 PM PDT by Pelham (California, Mexico's socialist colony)
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