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To: Jacquerie
confiscation of Tory property by the states was the rule, not the exception.

Property maybe. And even then, I'd have to see the numbers to see how widespread it was. But even if some loyalists had their property seized, very few were guillotined, and until now, we never descended into the tyranny of dictatorship. We never replaced the moral law that gave us authority with the godless Humanism that gave us license. In short, we did not become France.

At least for the first 240 years ...

4 posted on 10/05/2014 12:47:50 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: IronJack

One of the articles in the draft treaty of peace demanded by Great Britain was return of confiscated Tory property.

Since so much had been statutorily taken by the states and already sold, Congress refused.


6 posted on 10/05/2014 1:01:45 PM PDT by Jacquerie (Article V. If not now, when?)
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