Was today, 250 years ago.
The Shot Heard Round the World
7 responses to “The Shot Heard Round the World”
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Loved SHR back in the day.
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Unfortunately I doubt that a majority of our current day college students could even name three of the events mentioned within this short cartoon. They can’t look in their pants and determine if they’re a male or female either, so there’s that I guess.
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Yes, it was and ‘started’ our separation from England! Yay!!!
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A lot of the USA is based on the Magna Carta and Simon De Montfort (Provisions of Oxford) and John Locke and the two-tiered parliament system of England. Pluss a lot of the Bill of Right is based on issues that England had to deal with and resolve that were incorporated in the Bill of Rights. and I might mention that they never wanted to separate from England until the King refused intervene in favor of the colonies. The main grievance was toward Parliament. Besides that, there has to be a basic DNA structure in people for them to be able to accept such a system. Unless you have Anglo-Saxon DNA it is doubtful how well this system could work elsewhere. There is something in the Anglo Saxon DNA which takes the written law as absolute and binding. While in the ussr, the only reason the ridiculous system worked at all was the tendency to ignore the written rule and just strive toward what worked
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Patrick–It was great and so educational. I guess that’s why they canned it.
K9–Unfortunately probably true.
NFO–Definitely yay! Especially considering what England has become…
avraham–Interesting perspective. I will ponder!
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Without that day we would likely be a different country
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All the minutemen would be arrested by today’s Massachusetts government for not have FID card and open carrying.
Might as well be English
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