And now, at Teddy's request, I symbolically bash you with the Hammer of the Nekkid Mole Rat...
Posted on 02/17/2005 4:21:50 PM PST by Deadbug Dale
I was just reading Article 2 of James Madison & Ben Franklin's opus magnus and started counting the number of times that masculine gender is indicated. Hmmm, I doesn't appear that Hildabeast (or "Law of the Sea" Condi for that matter) can even be president.:
Article II.
Section. 1.
Clause 1: The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows
...
Clause 6: In Case of the Removal of the President from Office, or of his Death, Resignation, or Inability to discharge the Powers and Duties of the said Office, ...
Clause 7: The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them.
Clause 8: Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation:--"I do solemnly swear ...
Section. 2.
Clause 1: The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
Clause 2: He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint ...
Section. 3. He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States.
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Yep, knocked back from the generic "where no man has gone before" to the more eunicized "no one has gone before"
Heh, heh, heh.....
'You have a point. The Constitution did not allow women to vote in 1787.'
The founding fathers had no conception of women voting, people of color voting, why they could barely tolerate the idea of Irish people voting!
Male, White, and property owners only. They no doubt tried to exclude the Joooooos.
Doesn't mean they were "bad" and that the document was "bad". Just a peek into the way they thought then...kinda like the way the Saudis and the Islamofascists handle things...now.
Bump!
Your post is worth another look when I have more time.
Thanks!
"Must be a Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays..."
---Arther Dent
At the End of the World
(minus four minutes)
For what it's worth, it's obvious you're a troll and believe yourself more clever than most.
1: As I explained in my original post to you, "he" is simply the default for non-gender-specific statements. I'd presume you're aware of that, but know better than to presume any such thing.
2: When the cited Articles were written, women had no specific rights, and were therefore not even considered in the wording of the document.
Ergo, as women weren't considered, women aren't specifically banned from holding the office of president. Such specificity would require such a statement to include said feminine modifier, i.e.: "she", "her"
I bet you're still looking for a Declaration of War 20-D Short Form in order to consider Bush's dirty little police action to be a real war, too. It's in the bottom drawer of the archives, under the document explaining why American males should give American wimmin the right to vote or face extinction of the new Republic due to lack of willing females.
Friend of Saber's? I don't believe Saber would approve of such a level of pettyness. I doubt he'd approve of this tactic of yours.
You hope to be banned so you can go back home and b*tch
I write this for the archives since the weather reports are warning us to expect a troll tsunami.
Ohferpete'sake...Laz is this you?
And now, at Teddy's request, I symbolically bash you with the Hammer of the Nekkid Mole Rat...
Though, it's probably a little stale by now.
:0)
-good times, G.J.P.(Jr.)
Ah... stale beer and leftover cold pizza for breakfast.
sort of like college!
Thanks!
I think you are onto something.
This is someone we know, doing it for fun.
Rusty? Rusty Shakelford? Is that you?
:)
-good times, G.J.P.(Jr.)
(Adjusts fake mustache.)
Indeed.
(Doffs orange exterminator hat. Scrambles behind hedgerow.)
Something is dead already Dale and it is between your ears.
I suppose women are not human either after all it is huMAN and MANkind.
Nice attention-getter Newbie!
Let me guess. You're now reading the TNIV, instead of the NIV, KJV, NKJV, or NASB translations of the Bible?
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