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To: Gianni
So, then, you're saying that you don't understand the phrase, "by these presents?"

I do. Do you know what "hereby announcing to all those whom it may concern that the said Constitution is binding upon the said People" means?

448 posted on 09/22/2005 3:53:38 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
Do you know what "hereby announcing to all those whom it may concern that the said Constitution is binding upon the said People" means?

You and your partial quotes.

We the said Delegates in the name and in behalf of the People of Virginia do by these presents assent to and ratify the Constitution recommended on the seventeenth day of September one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven by the Federal Convention for the Government of the United States hereby announcing to all those whom it may concern that the said Constitution is binding upon the said People according to an authentic Copy hereto annexed...

Translated: "If it doesn't mean what we just said, deal's off."

467 posted on 09/23/2005 3:39:27 AM PDT by Gianni
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