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No idea about any of that other stuff, I couldn't get past the flag. The s is a non issue, it was called a long s as opposed to the short s and was influenced by French, German and Latin usage. The English dropped it before we did, we dropped it about 1810 give or take a few years. They commissioned an artist who had absolutely zero qualifications to do a work of this kind and the people who commissioned it were as ignorant as the artist was. A sad commentary on our public school system.
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Good intentions will always be pleaded for any assumption of power. The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern will, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.
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