A “subjects” changed to “citizens” story made my day.
Not much to say, but it sure brought a smile to my face.
On an early draft of the Declaration of Independence, it seems that Thomas Jefferson wrote in the word “subjects”. He obliterated that word, and wrote “citizens” over top of it.
But in a moment when history took a sharp turn, Jefferson sought quite methodically to expunge the word, to wipe it out of existence and write over it. Many words were crossed out and replaced in the draft, but only one was obliterated.
(Emphasis mine.)
Happy Independence Day, everyone.
(via Claire)
2010-07-03 11:21 by Standard Mischief, Filed under:deranged rants 2 Comments »
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2010-07-03 13:50 PermalinkDirtCrashr Says :
Yay Jefferson!
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