To: mattdono
Had to stop reading when I got to "inalienable". The word used in the Declaration of Independence is "unalienable".
I don't know who Glassman is, but he immediately loses credibility with a mistake like that.
14 posted on
10/21/2004 7:00:31 AM PDT by
VMI70
(...but two Wrights made an airplane)
To: VMI70
"Thomas Jefferson originally wrote "inalienable". When subsequent printed and hand-copied reproductions were made, John Adams, fellow Declaration Committee member (and later second President of the United States), arbitrarily had the word changed to "unalienable"; which he believed more correct. The original signed version of the final draft (i.e. the master document) of the Declaration of Independence and the inscription on the Jefferson Memorial both read "inalienable". However, the copy in the National Archives reads "unalienable"."
-- wordiq.com
To: VMI70
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#20 Forest. Trees, my FRiend.
25 posted on
10/21/2004 7:39:48 AM PDT by
mattdono
("Crush the democrats, drive them before you, and hear the lamentations of the scumbags" -Big Arnie)
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