Declaration Of Support: Fill & Download for Free

“Would you support changing the wording of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence to "people" instead of "man", "men" or "mankind"?”No.It’s unnecessary, asinine, and impossible.Unnecessary simply because it has no effect.The Declaration of Independence has no legal effect at all, and the Constitution simply doesn’t contain any of the “objectionable” terms (I just did a search to make sure).And that makes it asinine because it’s a pointless political hobbyhorse accomplishing nothing but virtue signaling.But it’s also asinine because the use of “man” and “mankind” to refer to both sexes equally is actually not discriminatory—it’s virtually the opposite: a linguistic holdover from when “man” actually meant “human being” (or perhaps “human adult”) in Old English, with “male adult” being “werman” and “female adult” being “wifman”.[1]And lastly, it’s impossible.The Declaration of Independence is a historical document—it can’t be “amended” any more than the Gettysburg Address or the “I Have a Dream” Speech. You could publish an “updated version”, but it wouldn’t be the Declaration of Independence, but merely your reimagining of the Declaration of Independence—the historical document would remain the same.And even if the Constitution had the words “man” or “men” or “mankind” in it, you could amend it, but the way we do amendments in the U.S. is that the original wording is still there but is merely superseded by the new amendment.Why don’t we spend more time on being fair and just to all mankind rather than worrying about empty gestures to make sure we look fair and just to all mankind?Footnotes[1] Oscar Tay's answer to Why does ‘woman’ contain ‘man’ and ‘female’ contain ‘male’?

National Public Radio has, for years, broadcast a reading of “The Declaration of Independence” every July 4. This year, NPR decided to have the reading as usual, but also to tweet it. Many of Trump's supporters simply did not recognize it, and so, jumped to the conclusion that NPR liberals were tweeting mean words and phrases about Pres. Trump. Instead, the words such as “tyranny" or “tyrant" are referring to to King George III of England, who ruled the American Colonies.

In theory, yes. In practice, what you do is ask them to withdraw it.This happened in 1941 when Romania, Hungary, and Bulgaria declared war on the United States in support of their German ally. President Franklin Roosevelt put the documents aside for six months while he made quiet inquiries to the three governments suggesting that their declarations of war were pointless. When these diplomatic efforts produced no response, Roosevelt informed the American congress and declarations of war were passed against those three nations in June of 1942. The American declaration of war against Romania was the last formal declaration of war its government has ever made.