Posted on 12/10/2001 5:46:17 PM PST by jla
Hi, sorry I haven`t been here in ages, but been very busy. Green Party Leader Sargent met the President of my University tonight.
I`m doing an essay on American democracy and I have to get it in for next Tues. I`ve read nearly a whole book with the title `Democracy` and am dipping in to `Democracy in America` by Alexis de Toqueville. I have to come up with a title for the essay and I`m along the lines of `Democracy in America: the two-party system` or maybe something on gridlock. I asked my brother`s girlfriend, who is from where the Constitution was signed in 1787, if she had any ideas, but she didn`t really have a clue. Any suggestions?
Then how about, "The Best Part of Ireland Moved to America in the Early 20th Century"?
Then why is she asking for help from members of this forum?
It's obvious she is not familiar with the American ideals representd here. Either that or she hasn't bothered to read Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People".
GREEN PARTY CAN KISS MY ROYAL IRISH ASS!
How about "America Rules: Grovel at our feet"
Or how about: "USA No.1, USA No. 1, USA No. 1" Just trying to help.
Look your brother's girlfriend in the eye and say: "Iggles rule, Iggles rule, Iggles rule."
She'll know what you're talking about.
I suggest the student take a look at that foundation under her political beliefs and just write about how embarrassed she is by it, or proud of it, or how she's just going to die if we don't stop talking nasty about the European Green movement.
At the moment, lots of folks who understand the relationships would probably agree with the contention that not enough of them were shot in the 1940s.
Try this:
If it wasn't for the United States, the UK wouldn't have cared wheter the U.S. entered WWI. And thus the Brits could have and would have crushed the 1916 rebellion like Ghengis Khan, and turned the entire Island into a de-populated cattle ranch.
You're welcome.
The Constitution was written in 1787. It was never "signed." It was ratified by the required 11 state legislatures in 1788 (9 were required) and took effect March 4, 1789.
North Carolina ratified it Nov. 21 1789 and Rhode Island, May 29, 1790 by a 34-32 vote.
Vermont ratified it in a convention Jan. 10, 1791 and was admitted as the 14th state on March 4, 1791.
This info should actually be helpful to you.
USA No. 1 USA No. 1 USA No. 1
"We saved your ass during WWII, but we will not do your homework for you , you lazy Scottish twit"
I asked my brother`s girlfriend, who is from where the Constitution was signed in 1787, if she had any ideas, but she didn`t really have a clue.
The city where the Constitution was written was Philadelphia. There are over a million people there. Saying they know more than others about the Constitution is like saying that the average Londoner is an expert on the Glorious Revolution. I wager the vast majority of Philadelphians don't know the Constitution from the Declaration from the Petition of Right from the English Bill of Rights from the Two Treatises of Government from the Spirit of Laws from the Magna Carta.
In fact, I suggest you write a paper on the British influences of the American republic using those very documents. Also, Churchill had some nice things to say in The Great Republic. He offered that the Constitution was not necessarily framed on the ideals of the Enlightenment, but on British history, law, and political ideology. He was right. It is not a coincidence that the greatest republic in the history of the world was founded by Englishmen.
Of course, the Green would like none of this since the very idea of limiting government, the entity that makes the air and the grass and the food and the water and the sunshine, is reprehensible to socialists. If she wants to write a decent paper on America, she has to realize that government isn't always good.
Of course when her releatives in America send her back money from their jobs in construction, she don't much cotton to sending it back either. Disgust with the American capitalist system often seems to be a more symbolic than practical stance with the Irish libs anyway. These Greens make me ashamed of my heritage.
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