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Quote by: Roxdog  Um, you need to go back to school and take US History 101. Writing the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights was basically a suicide pact when it was written. The so-called "revolution" barely existed at that point and any semblance of "success" was a half decade away....
Just admit it....you're clueless.
Actually, that is simply your ridiculous straw man. Your demented world view makes it necessary for you to employ them.
No one is talking about "overthrowing" the current govt. There is nothing unreasonable about law-abiding persons having the ability to defened themselves....unless your a socialist bootlicker. |
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Writing the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights was basically a suicide pact when it was written.
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No, it wasn't. The Declaration of Independence was a form of political haggling, the signatories and the British government were well aware that in the early stages the rebellion was an attempt to force the British government into conciliatory measures. Of course, intitally the British public and, many in parlaiment, were unwilling to give such measures (though relatively recent scholarship by individuals such as James Bradley, suggests that public support for conciliatory measures was much higher in britain than initially supposed). Certainly within a very short period after the outbreak of the war that minority in favour of conciliatory measures had become a large majority. However in the Americas conciliatory reform had ceased being enough, and independance had become the motive of the rebels.