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  • Why did they put that into the Constitution of the State of Virginia?

    09/01/2025 3:03:08 AM PDT · by ProgressingAmerica · 25 replies
    PGA Weblog ^ | 8/31/25
    There are two interesting items in the 1776 Constitution for the State of Virginia. The first one is in the second paragraph and it reads as follows: Whereas George the Third, King of Great Britain and Ireland, and Elector of Hanover, heretofore intrusted with the exercise of the Kingly Office in this Government, hath endeavoured to pervert the same into a detestable and insupportable Tyranny; by putting his negative on laws the most wholesome and necessary for the publick good;"Putting his negative" What this means is a veto. This would upset anybody. The people of Virginia want to do something,...
  • American History Accurately - (heritage being dropped from curriculum; knowledge of US history lost)

    06/15/2005 4:57:43 PM PDT · by CHARLITE · 21 replies · 855+ views
    A.I.M.ORG ^ | JUNE 14, 2005 | MALCOLM A. KLINE
    In a recent appearance at the Heritage Foundation, an author who has written many great histories gave some insight as to why the Ivory Tower produces such, at best, lackluster ones. "Many people say, 'Why bother with history?,' and unfortunately many of them are in education," best-selling writer David McCullough said at the Heritage Foundation last Friday. McCullough has penned best-selling historical biographies of American Presidents John Adams and Harry S. Truman. "Why is it possible that an otherwise intelligent person does not know that the original 13 colonies were on the East Coast or who George Marshall was," McCullough...