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Royalist! Traitor! You defy the very premise of the United States of America's existence: The God-given right to live free from the oppression of a Draconian R
by chris_mahan 13y ago
Royalist! Traitor!
You defy the very premise of the United States of America's existence: The God-given right to live free from the oppression of a Draconian Regime!
(I kid, I kid, I like to hear people's opinions)
But it's got to strike you as interesting that I have taken many history classes, along with reading many historical books, and still evidently lack the profound knowledge of the 1770s that you have. I wonder whether my classes and books were somehow deficient, perhaps as they were written and taught by the victors, the same sort of people who benefited from these Colonial Opportunists, and may thus be unwilling to besmirch their hallowed reputations...
- dkuntz2 13y agoIt's partially that I spend a great deal of time with history buffs, and partially that I took a Modern British History class (1485 onwards, starting with Henry VII). I also had the same teachers, teaching from the American view, but my college (Carthage College) has a Western Heritage requirement, where second semester freshmen year some of our readings were Locke, Marx and Engles, and two drafts and the final version of the Declaration of Independence. Plus, political systems intrigue me.