Posted on 01/20/2010 11:29:03 AM PST by Publius
You’re going to have a lot of fun on February 1, when we dissect Centinel #1, Samuel Bryan’s artillery barrage against the new Constitution.
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A very enthusiastic "YES!" from me. Sign me up. The semi-biblical references are absolutely genius. I cannot imagine the amount of work you two have put into this. Thanks for your efforts.
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i’ll do it. I didn’t comment much last time, I don’t know if I will this time either.
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Sign me up. Thanks, this looks like a great deal of work, but I am looking forward to it!
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A very eye-opening (for me) moment was when someone (wish I could recall who it was!) replied to me that FR would have been a Federalist website.
I think that it's so difficult to match up things across time (modern conservatives who would have been against the Constitution back then are some of its most ardent defenders), but that was an excellent observation and probably why I sometimes find myself at odds with FReepers who are more big-government in their outlook.
Not to jump ahead of things, but I think that both sides were right. On one hand, having the Second Amendment written out might be the only reason the right hasn't been totally abrogated. But on the other hand, by enumerating rights, people have gotten the idea that only the Bill of Rights matters and that the Constitution "grants us rights."
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What a great project! I swear the sky just turned blue since the last time I looked—which was right before reading your post. :-)
Thank you for your efforts.
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For years I had experienced difficulties with 18th Century prose, earning many a headache trying to wrap my brain around the prose of geniuses written in a bygone style. The idea of America's Civic Religion having its own bible made up of Federalist and Anti-Federalist papers made sense if one could treat the text as though it were truly from the pens of the editors of the King James edition.
You're right in that it is a lot of really hard work. But once the prose is separated into chapter-and-verse and the punctuation is modernized, the prose flows like water in a mountain brook, especially Hamilton's contributions.
I've come to see Hamilton and Madison as kindred spirits and in different ways.
Hamilton started his life in business and then "read law" to qualify for public office. His contributions come across like those of a brilliant business lawyer, which at that time he had become. If I wanted to invite someone to a dinner party who could entertain a whole room full of people, I'd ask Hamilton.
Madison, like myself, was something of a history geek, and he comes across like the earnest student of history. If I wanted to have someone over for a beer and a conversation, I'd ask Madison. (Hamilton probably wouldn't shut up, and Madison only drank in moderation.)
This is becoming a wonderful project for myself and Billthedrill.
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