Again pinging to #72 here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3274207/posts?page=72#72
In the last sentence of post #72, Sven is asking for a convention of the states to be headed up by 0, Biden, and ‘the people’.
0 and Biden
Did all y’all get the significance of that?
I never voted for those two characters, and I certainly would not want them heading up a convention of the states!!!
(I would wager many FReepers would not want them meddling either.)
In 1761, the colonists were loyal British subjects. The sole governing authority over the collective of idea that colonists should be independent of King George III was known as Congress. With no power and no ability to enforce any of its decisions, Congress, declared independence, conducted a war that defeated one of the greatest military powers at the time, and created a sovereign independent nation.
In June 1776, as Thomas Jefferson composed a draft of the Declaration of Independence. Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. By the time the members of Congress had signed their names to the final, edited document, an invading force of British soldiers had landed in New York.
Excerpted from:
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/charters_of_freedom_3.html