Originally posted by 99blacksvt:
BTW,

Daenku, your scholarship is so poor with some of the things you said, you really should research how we make laws in this country. The reason legislators won't give YOU a pledge that YOU find suitable for YOURSELF, is that people in the MAJORITY of the congressional districts have elected men and women who find the Pledge of Allegiance perfectly fine. This is the MAJORITY opinion of the US Congress and its delegates. This is exactly the reason we have an electoral college divided into 435 areas of the same population. It is the best way to determine a true MAJORITY of the nations intentions.



Hah hah!! My scholarship is poor? What do you think the Bill of Rights was all about? Why do you think we have a judicial part of government, and why we have the Senate?

It's all to prevent dictatorship of majority, regardless whether it's local or from another state. Just ask any NRA member. They will tell you that even if the majority decides on something (eg banning guns), doesn't mean it must be correct.

Electoral college is NOT divided equally amongst the population. Electoral college was a step away from popular vote, the direct form of Democracy (MAJORITY opinion). To keep a more populous state from dictator less populous ones.

I have not commented on the religious beliefs of the founding fathers with the exception of the deists statement, because it frankly does not matter. Because when they formed the government they did NOT task it to sustain a certain religious belief in the land. They more specifically forbidded it from doing that.

But since you are so keen to living as the founding fathers, maybe you should become an Amish. Their lifestyle might not be excatly like the founding fathers' (Amish don't have slaves), but pretty close.

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