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    8 months ago

    Then, again, what makes a document written before America existed where we get American values from? They would not be American values if they were written before there was an America.

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      8 months ago

      In Congress, July 4, 1776

      The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, …

      America didn’t begin with the signing of the Constitution.

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        8 months ago

        It absolutely did. Those states still operated as independent entities. They were united on the issue of declaring independence. Until the Constitution was signed, the states were not united as a nation.

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          8 months ago

          Do you think Rome didn’t exist before Caesar Augustus took power?

          Did England spring from William of Normandy’s forehead fully formed, clad in a wool coat and singing Rule Brittania?