Books, Books, and More Books!!
WE are gearing up for the July 4th celebrations tomorrow and I’m feeling a bit ambivalent about the entire thing.
I would love to know how many people have actually read the Bill of Rights, The Constitution or our Declaration of Independence. Have you?
Now I’m going back to reading Boom Town!
xx Patricia
I too am feeling ambivalent about the holiday. I’ve read all of those documents you listed…but I’m a paralegal, so it’s a career requirement on top of just being a good thing for a citizen to do. I also enjoyed the Federalist Papers and Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America.
I took U.S. Government in tenth grade, so I definitely read all of those for that class. I’ve also taken several trips to Washington, D.C. before and after that. My parents also have a framed copy of The Declaration of Independence – I believe that my family has ancestors that are related to the signing of The Declaration, as well as the American Revolution.
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I HAVE—BUT NEED TO READ THEM AGAIN—BUT PROVIDENCE, GOD, AS WERE UNDERSTOOD BACK THEN—AND ONE NEEDS TO REFERENCE WHAT THE LEADERS THEN ACTUALLY SAID—IN THEIR OWN WORDS—NOT SOME PRESENT -DAY OPINION, YET FACTS ARE FUN!
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