Comments on: Thoughts on a Declaration

By: a daughter's mother

a daughter's mother — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:33:45 +0000

There’s so much “stuff” in our legislation now that adding those two words is redundant way out of proportion. I’ll settle for adding some more substance to our legislation, like single payer health care, equal marriage and employment rights for all, higher taxes now according to ability to pay so our grandchildren aren’t swamped with an impossible debt load. better support of public education with the end goal of producing a nation of better informed and thoughtful citizens. I know, pretty explosive stuff. Sounds perfect for this time of the year.

I hope the cats have settled down.

By: Stephanie Zvan

Stephanie Zvan — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:12:28 +0000

Oh, I so want “and stuff” added to all our legislation now.

By: Jodi

Jodi — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:23:11 +0000

That makes sense.
Still sort of makes me giggle though, as I imagine in todays lingo it might be re-written as “and to do all other Acts and Things and Stuff which Independent States may of right do.”

By: Stephanie Zvan

Stephanie Zvan — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:29:35 +0000

Jodi, I suspect that was deliberately left a bit vague. There are some arguments you maybe don’t want to start in the middle of a war. You certainly don’t want to leave the definition up to just one person, and Jefferson wrote the Declaration with only a few changes contributed from others. We took more than another ten years to write that document.

By: Mike Haubrich

Mike Haubrich — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:40:25 +0000

There is a great deal of apathy mixed with jingo-ism and “America, Hell Yeah!” attitude. If more people would pay attention to the issues that were at stake back then, they would perhaps look more closely at what our country does in our name in other countries. It’s as though our freedoms are good enough for us, but not for the people whose dictators we prop up (until we no longer need them.)

By: Jodi

Jodi — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:06:12 +0000

I know this is supposed to be a serious topic so I apologize in advance. I have never read your Declaration of Independence before (being Canadian and all) and I admit I didn’t read the whole thing even now, but I did read the last paragraph and couldn’t help but laugh at this line:

and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do.

It just sounds a bit odd and out of place. Is there somewhere that outlines what ‘Things’ means?

By: Trish Lewis

Trish Lewis — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:19:27 +0000

Made me really think and reflect and realize we have a lot to answer for in our modern day complacency…Thanks for reminding me of what this day is all about…