I question a different period—the one that started on January 20, 2009, and continues to this day. It is a period marked by the complete incompetence of a Marxist president, and leads one to wonder how the collective psyche of 50 million plus Americans had become so corrupted that Barack Obama could have been reelected.
Oh, and note to NY Times: The Declaration of Independence, however you choose to parse the punctuation, has exactly zero legal ramifications. For that, you would want to go to the other founding document, the one that starts with a “C,” the very document that your beloved president spends every waking hour trying to get around.
Thank you...I intended to make the point you did about the DoI not being a legal document, but in my haste this AM I omitted it.