From: Hermit (hidden@lucifer.com)
Date: Wed Aug 28 2002 - 20:53:52 MDT
[Walter Watts] Hermit, you capitulate that the United States of America has EVER done ANYTHING right.
[Hermit] She has done many things right. One of the reasons I am living here - by choice, not through an accident of birth. Two examples of "right things" follow.
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Constitution of the United States : Article VI
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/art6.htm
2. This constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, any thing in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding.
3. The senators and representatives before-mentioned, and the members of the several state legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several states, shall be bound by oath or affirmation, to support this constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.
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The Barbary Treaties : Treaty of Peace and Friendship, Signed at Tripoli November 4, 1796
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/barbary/bar1796t.htm#art10
ARTICLE 11.
As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion,-as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen,-and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.
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Hmmm, seems to me that there may be grounds for impeachment...
Kind Regards
Hermit
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