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Why would anyone celebrate the birth of the biggest pack of arseholes on the
planet. SST wrote in message t... IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies: For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends. We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ---- The 56 signatures on the Declaration appear in the positions indicated: Column 1 Georgia: Button Gwinnett Lyman Hall George Walton Column 2 North Carolina: William Hooper Joseph Hewes John Penn South Carolina: Edward Rutledge Thomas Heyward, Jr. Thomas Lynch, Jr. Arthur Middleton Column 3 Massachusetts: John Hancock Maryland: Samuel Chase William Paca Thomas Stone Charles Carroll of Carrollton Virginia: George Wythe Richard Henry Lee Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Harrison Thomas Nelson, Jr. Francis Lightfoot Lee Carter Braxton Column 4 Pennsylvania: Robert Morris Benjamin Rush Benjamin Franklin John Morton George Clymer James Smith George Taylor James Wilson George Ross Delawa Caesar Rodney George Read Thomas McKean Column 5 New York: William Floyd Philip Livingston Francis Lewis Lewis Morris New Jersey: Richard Stockton John Witherspoon Francis Hopkinson John Hart Abraham Clark Column 6 New Hampshi Josiah Bartlett William Whipple Massachusetts: Samuel Adams John Adams Robert Treat Paine Elbridge Gerry Rhode Island: Stephen Hopkins William Ellery Connecticut: Roger Sherman Samuel Huntington William Williams Oliver Wolcott New Hampshi Matthew Thornton |
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I agree!
"grahamilton" graham_hamilton{at}msn.com wrote in message ... God Bless Everyone. |
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Yeah but beware of the Canadian Navy!
"Daemon Rose" wrote in message news:d_pNa.105352$R73.12149@sccrnsc04... All of our buildings are still standing... Yours? Are you insinuating the Canadians were responsible for that, ****wit? As your comment indicates, Canadians aren't smart enough to pull something like that off. Even if they were though, America would have the Canadian military (Canada does have a military, right?...LOL) on it's knees in about two hours, so keep laughing. Sounds like you've chuckled yourself right into a stupor. Snap out of it. -- Daemon Rose |
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http://www.dsv.su.se/jpalme/society/...-attempts.html
"Martin Eriksson" wrote in message ... Well just wait until I post the Swedish "constitution" on our national day. I guess "your" constitution is a plagialized version of ours... *PLONK* /M |
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Absolutely nothing!
Did you need to ask that question? "Wolfram Nickl" wrote in message ... Hi! Stupid Question from an Austrian: What has all this to do with overclocking?? Wolfram |
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Constitution of Sweden
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Swedish Constitution consists of four basic laws (Swedish: grundlagar): a.. The Instrument of Government (1974) b.. The Act of Succession (1809) c.. The Freedom of the Press Act (1766) d.. The Fundamental Law on Freedom of Expression (1991) There is also a law on the working order of the Parliament with a special status but which does not qualify as a "basic law": a.. The Riksdag Act (1974) To amend or to make a revision of a basic law, the Parliament needs to approve the changes twice in two successive terms, with a general election having been held in between. Instrument of Government The most important of the "basic laws" is The Instrument of Government or Regeringsformen. It sets out the basic principles for political life in Sweden defining rights and freedoms. The Parliamentarian Instrument of Government of 1974 grants the power to commission a Prime Minister to the Riksdag (Parliament) at the suggestion of the Speaker of the Riksdag. The Prime Minister appoints members of Cabinet including heads of ministries, totalling to approximately 20 members. The Cabinet decides collectively in governmental matters after report of the Head of Ministry in question. At least five Cabinet members are to be present at the decission. In practice reports are written, and discussions very rare, during the formal Cabinet meetings. Remaining constitutional functions for The Head of State, i.e. the King, include: heading the Council of State (the King plus the Cabinet), heading the Council on Foreign Affairs, recognizing new Cabinets (in the Council of State), and opening the Parliament's yearly session. The King is to be continuously briefed on governmental issues - in the Council of State or directly by the Prime Minister. History The first constitutional Instrument of Government was enacted in 1719, marking the transition from Autocracy to Parliamentarism. Sweden's unbloody revolution of 1772 was legitimized by the Parliament in new versions of the Instrument of Government (in 1772 and 1789), making the King a "Constitutional Autocrat". When Sweden was split in 1809, and Finland was created as a Russian Grand duchy, this "Constitutional Autocracy" was very well fitted, and remained in force until Finland's independence in 1917. In Sweden the loss of virtually half the realm led to another unbloody revolution, a new royal dynasty, and a new Instrument of Government of June 6, 1809, under which the King still played a central role in government, however no more independent of the Privy Council. The King was free to choose Councellors, but was bound to decide in governmental matters only in presence of the Privy Council, or a subset thereof, and after report of the Councellor responsible for the matter in question. The Councellor had to countersign a royal decission, unless it was un-constitutional, whereby it gained legal force. The Councellor was legally responsible for his advice, and was obliged to note his dissension in case he didn't agree with the King's decission. De jure this Constitution puts a considerable power on the King; a power increasingly used to follow the Councellors' advice, and from 1917 to adhere to principles of Parliamentarism by chosing Councellors possessing direct or indirect support from a majority of the Parliament. After over 50 years of de facto Parliamentarism it was written into the Instrument of Government of 1974 which, although technically adherent to Constitutional monarchy, finally abolished the Privy Council. Act of Succession Sweden's switch from elective to hereditary monarchy in 1544 gave reason to Sweden's first law of constitutional character, in form of a treaty between the royal dynasty and the realm represented by the four Estates to be valid for all times. Accordingly the current Act of Succession (Swedish: Successionsordningen) is a treaty between the old Riksdag of the Estates and The House of Bernadotte regulating the right to accede to the Swedish throne. In 1980 the old principle of "agnatic primogeniture", which meant that the throne was inherited by the eldest male child of the preceding monarch, was replaced by the principle of full "cognatic primogeniture." This meant that the throne will be inherited by the eldest child without regard to sex. Thereby Princess Victoria of Sweden, the eldest child of King Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden, was created heir apparent to the Swedish throne over her younger brother. Freedom of expression The other two acts defines the freedom of the press and other forms of expression. They are separated into two separate laws mainly to maintain the tradition of the Freedom of the Press Act or Tryckfrihetsförordningen from 1766. The Freedom of the Press Act has actually been changed several times since its first incarnation. In 1772, 1810, 1812, 1949 and 1982. Public access to governmental documents In the 18th century, after over 40 years of mixed experiences with Parliamentarism, Public access to governmental documents was one of the main issues with the Freedom of the Press Act of 1766. Although the novelity was put out of order 1772-1809, it has since remained central in the Swedish mindset, seen as a forceful means against corruption and governmental agencies' inequal treatment of the citizens, increasing the perceived legitimacy of (local and central) government and politicians. Lutheran State Church In 1593, after 70 years of Reformation and Counter-Reformation in Sweden, adherence to the Augsburg confession was decided and given constitutional status at the Synode of Uppsala (Uppsala möte). References to Uppsala möte has since then been worked into the "basic laws", notably the Act of Succession. "Martin Eriksson" wrote in message ... Well just wait until I post the Swedish "constitution" on our national day. I guess "your" constitution is a plagialized version of ours... *PLONK* /M |
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You sure, I thought he invented Oxygen!
"Daemon Rose" wrote in message t... And if not for the freedom and ingenuity of the Americans .. there would be no precious internet or your frickin' NG's or probably the computer you're sitting at. Yeah, just where do these people get off talking about Americans like that anyway? Don't they know Al Gore invented the Internet? -- Daemon Rose |
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And your supposed to scare me Mr 'I'm so tough, i'm an ex-grunt'? Hah - get
a life you moron - realise that the world does not revolve around your asshole. Kai in article , neopolaris at . wrote on 7/4/03 10:41 pm: There probably wouldn't even be an internet or computers if it weren't for the United States. There probably wouldn't be a helluva lotta things. If you dislike 'US" tough. We are making the world a better place-one sandbox and rice paddy at a time. PS: Yo fatass KAI. I have a temper too. Goes well with my formal Army training. In short, shut your piehole. neopolaris ex-grunt E-3-1 |
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In case you hadnt twigged by now, i'm not french. I just have the misfortune
to have to live here. Still - i agree with 99% of your post Kai in article , Dave at wrote on 7/4/03 11:22 pm: "Kai Robinson" wrote in message ... Haha - well thats america for you - plenty of dumbasses :P Please keep the stereotyping to a minimum...that is unless you would like us Americans to typify France as a bunch of unwashed, pungent, elitist snail-eating Socialists with poor drinking water, strange sexual proclivities, sharper class distinctions, a history of arrogant aristocratic inbreeding monarchy, and a far lower standard of living, due in no small part of late to Chameleon Bonaparte's little oil deal with Saddam falling thru...which clearly does not apply to everyone in France. The number of dumbasses per capita is a GLOBAL demographic, spanning all social strata. Factor in population growth and we can naturally see stupidity propagating at a near-exponential rate... Honi soit qui merde y pense... No offence to anyone normal btw, just to drunken morons Hey, I know Norm and Al. And no, they aren't living together. Only in France ;-) (and SF, Greenwich Village, Ogunquit, ME, and P-town which is south of my position both literally and metaphorically). Normality is the idea of consensus perpetuated by weak-minded, mediocre, insecure sheep who need to feel like they're part of something larger than the limited scope of their self-awareness. When you consider my above assertion, namely that most people are indeed stupid (only the top 10% actually have any noteworthy intellect, statistically speaking), then I guess it thus follows that "normality" is pretty much dumb all over...and a little ugly on the side ;-) Never mind SST. He's another "Nvidia Dude". He is an obsessive/compulsive, shallow, insecure materialist with a melodramatic flair and a history of cyclical abuse. I think his fat wife left him not too long ago as well. He was told this would happen if he didn't take his meds and well, he didn't take his meds and this happened. He's mostly ok while his dope supply lasts, it's just been a little dry lately... Kai in article , Doc at wrote on 7/4/03 8:06 pm: I love July 4th, even though I'm not from the states. It's always comical to hear about some dumbass blowing half his body parts off with fireworks while he was in a drunken stupor. : : doc : : : "Kai Robinson" wrote in message ... Yep. Its Crap. Does it matter where i'm from? If i lived in the US, your post would STILL have been labeled as crap, because its not some 'isnt a america great' ng. Stupid? I think not. Oh and i'm far from little as well. 6foot4 with a ****ing great temper. Heavy Too. Go back into that dark little hole of yours and stop bothering us with your nonsensical babblings... in article , SST at wrote on 7/4/03 5:40 pm: Oh, its crap? I see. Where are you from, Kai? You stupid little person, you must be from France! "Kai Robinson" wrote in message ... Exactly what is the point of posting this in here? Is this a forum just for yanks? Is this forum dealing with the US specifically? No. Please dont post this crap in here - there are other NG's for that. Happy whatever it is day though... in article , SST at wrote on 7/4/03 5:28 pm: IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776....blah.....blah....blah |
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