GOP Wins the Contest for Number of God References in their Platform

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Originally Posted by whell

Your logic is a bit tortured here IMHO.

You're entitled to your opinion, humble as it is.

To suggest that the Declaration is not a founding document when it is treated as such by both historians and our own government is curious on your part. In "the strictest sense", it is a product of the Continental Congress, a governmental body and forerunner of our current ferderal government. It's as much a part of the history of this country as the Magna Charta is to England.

I don't dispute that the Declaration of Independence is a seminal document in American history but, though I recognize my view is not the accepted one, I believe that the Declaration is a predecessor to our founding documents. The Continental Congress was a revolutionary council. It wasn't a national government. Our national government was established after the Revolution was over and won.

As for the Magna Carta, that differs significantly from the Declaration of Independence because it was a document executed by King John to stave off the dissolution of the Monarchy, not an act of rebellion against the Crown. One document preserved the integrity of a nation and the other rent it asunder.

The reference to the President was to the office, not the person, since the treaty did not reference the President by name.

That's pretty weak, Whell. Those words are a direct reference to the person, not the country. Period.

As I said before, Whell, The Treaty with Tunis was an ancillary document to the Treaty of Tripoli. The language was highly personalized. It was pretty much a treaty of personal friendship between the "magnificent Prince Hamuda Pasha, Bey of Tunis" and the President of the United States, personal but formal.

John