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  1. PhillJones

    In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776

    A country generally needs an impetous to change it's system of governance. It's more to the point to say, 'why shouldn't they stay a monarchy'. It's a point of history that is alien to our modern sensibilites that Britain is still a constitutional monarchy because the common people wanted a...
  2. PhillJones

    In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776

    Do you mean the English Civil war, the glorious revolution of William and Mary and the end of the divine right? That all happened in the 17th Century. Did you know that Britain was technically a republic for a while?
  3. PhillJones

    In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776

    It's been noted before, and not by me, that the declaration is mostly just whinging about King George III. ;) He couldn't help it, he was mental*. Yee-Ming, purely as a guess, it may refer to the royal proclamation of 1763 which forbade colonists from settling or buying land west of the...
  4. PhillJones

    In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776

    Eh? Do what now? What always struck me as odd is that you celebrate on July 4th. This seems odd to me as you've got to go to work on July 5th. Take a leaf out of the European book of getting hammered. Do it the night BEFORE you have a day off so that you don't have to go to work with a hang...
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