Re: [OT] Liberals was: Personal hoody-hoo

> IIRC -- and it's been a long time since I studied this -- colonials
> were British subjects and should in theory have had the same rights as
> the people living in London.	Not the same rights as the aristocracy,
> but that's not what they were complaining about.  Not that this is on
> topic anyway.

Actually it was a large part of the problem .  Most of the Founding
Fathers
were for all intents and purposes a landed aristocracy and they knew it.

>   The American Empire was established quite a while ago--it's just
> that, unlike the British Empire, almost all the natives we subjected
> were on the same continent.

Actually, exterminated would be a more accurate description...

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