"Seven of the 39 men who signed the Constitution were immigrants. In fact, two of the three men most associated with its passage, Alexander Hamilton and James Wilson, were foreign-born. One of the three men who wrote the Federalist Papers explaining the Constitution was born abroad.
When George Washington chose Justices of the Supreme Court to interpret the Constitution, three of his choices were immigrants. James Wilson of Scotland, James Iredell of England, and William Patterson from Ireland made up the immigrant third of the original of the Supreme Court.
Four of the first six Secretaries of the Treasury were immigrants, one each from Switzerland and Scotland, and two from the West Indies. President Washington appointed an Irish immigrant, James McHenry, as Secretary of War in 1796.
Immigrants did not have to rely on Presidential appointment to hold important offices. Of the 81 Congressmen in the first Congress, eight were immigrants."
https://longislandwins.com/news/nati...nding-fathers/
"48 of the 56 signers were born in America. Two were born in England (Button Gwinnett, Robert Morris), two in Ireland (George Taylor, Matthew Thornton), two in Scotland (James Wilson, John Witherspoon), one in Northern Ireland (James Smith), and one in Wales (Francis Lewis)."
https://declaration.fas.harvard.edu/...rican-colonies
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Really, 99%? Where did you get that number?
Here's the thing, if you only care about your own freedom, you don't really care about freedom at all. That's like a liberal who bans guns saying he still has "99% freedom" because he doesn't care about those things. How are you any different than the liberals?
Last edited by Machismo; 2018-01-14 at 05:30 PM.
I likely watch less tv than most. It’s not the media it’s delusional people constantly trying hard not to deal with problems and being angry the most at anybody who cares to do anything about it. Because living life being an adult is just too much of a bummer for some.
Yes people really do hate and want to kill one another. Yes they’re serious, no they aren’t sorry about about it unless it’s to spare others feelings.
It’s not going to get better and it’s not going to improve. We might all be in the U.S but we are not united or looking try to be.
Milli Vanilli, Bigger than Elvis
Yes, the term "We" at that time meant white anglo-saxon protestants, later on "we" was including more and more groups
- irish, germans, jews, blacks, hispanics and asians and so on.
I hope one day "WE" will mean the whole world, anyway, who can possibly be against US taking over the globe?
Lets talk about this know, you've dedicated about 6 posts for my "not native" enough English and now you cant even properly build a sentence ( happened twice!)
something aint clear, I guess youre the one born outside while trying to label people around you that for obvious mental reasons