[Ohioan]

You are much too kind to refer to this Jaffa as a "Constitutional Con Man." That is obviously an understatement. He apparently has adopted the same technique of the Big Lie that distinguished Hitler, Goebbels and our own Bill Clinton in the past Century.

It is good to see someone call one of these Socialist deceivers on an out and out lie; and frankly I am glad for the heads up on the Treaty of Paris. That is an excellent point to respond to those who refuse to recognize that our Constitutional system was adopted by completely sovereign States--each as sovereign, for example, as the States of France or Great Britain at the time. That is certainly how our Declaration Of Independence treats them, and thus has certainly always been the historic American view--liars like Jaffa notwithstanding.

For a fuller appreciation of how completely Socialism in all of its varieties depends upon a willingness to lie, see The Lies Of Socialism.

Do you know if the Treaty of Paris is available on the Web? I would like to lift it and publish it at my web site, or at least have a link. Again, that point is really an excellent one to nail the point.

William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site

[Aurelius]

The Paris Peace Treaty of 1783

[Non-Sequitur]

I think that you need to read the treaty. In it the United Kingdom is making peace with a single nation, The United States, and not with 13 separate entities. The treaty mentions the United State 18 times and the individual states only once, and then as a definition of the term 'United States'. To say that this somehow means that Great Britain refused to recognize the United States as a single county or that this treaty somehow supercedes the Constitution is ridiculous.