[TheRealThing]

SOMBRERO POST #6

At the time the Constitution was written and ratified, women could not vote, had no legal standing, and those with black skin could be counted as property like a cow or a couch. It may be convenient to ignore history, but it isn't honest or helpful if we want to accurately assess the Constitution and the people who wrote it, who were white men, not gods in waiting. Pump the brakes, folks, on America as The City of God.

It's election season again and you're out to do your civic duty, I got that. And thus as the quote from above reveals, we are again coming full circle. Forgive me, but I already saw my stop whiz by a couple of times, as have Truth and Hoot. And as fate would have it, I see in the quote below, that it is coming up again. So I'll be getting off the circular logic express about where I got on. Not to despair though, you can always sign on under one of your 'other' personalities on here. I saw that you already 'liked' one of your own posts, the one above in fact, when you made your Mexican debut in the Scalia thread, so that should keep you occupied for a few minutes.


SOMBRERO POST #122

The Framers "highest vision" of freedom and liberty allowed human beings to be held as chattel. But, viewing the Constitutional "we" to include everyone, in other words expanding the vision of the Framers, can bring about the highest vision of freedom and liberty a civil government can offer.