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| Posted by: WaymanWong 12:18 am EDT 07/06/17 | |
| In reply to: the whoring and the drinking - showtunetrivia 11:04 pm EDT 07/05/17 | |
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| Laura, you probably know the answer to this, but there's the scene after all the delegates have left. It's just Thomson, the congressional secretary, and Leather Apron and Courier. Leather Apron says he wants to join the Army, and Thomson says something like: Do you think the members of the Congress would get send themselves to war? Of course not. ... That seemed like such a knock at our modern-day Congress during the Vietnam War. ... Was it based on anything our Founding Fathers said? |
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| re: the whoring and the drinking | |
| Posted by: StageDoorJohnny 10:48 pm EDT 07/09/17 | |
| In reply to: re: the whoring and the drinking - WaymanWong 12:18 am EDT 07/06/17 | |
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| not Thomson, it's McNair | |
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| re: the whoring and the drinking | |
| Posted by: showtunetrivia 10:27 am EDT 07/06/17 | |
| In reply to: re: the whoring and the drinking - WaymanWong 12:18 am EDT 07/06/17 | |
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| No source that I know about. And yes, it sounds very much like a jab at the modern-day Congress. I doubt any political leaders of the period would ever have said anything remotely like that. And the views of people who were custodians weren't likely to be preserved for posterity. So, yeah, that's Stone and Edwards talking. The other thing we in 2017 often forget is that democracy to Adams and Company and democracy to us aren't the same thing. Universal suffrage and the direct election of senators were a long, long ways away. It's one reason I inwardly flinch when Adams and Rutledge go at it, and John intones, "The people." Well, okay, John, some of the people. More than were running things before,,so it's progress. And we did get there eventually. Laura |
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