"We The People" meaning
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by Alegretto
It is said that General Santa Anna, when he was taken prisoner after the battle of San Jacinto (today's Houston), was brought before General Houston. He opened his mouth and said : We the people... but immediately Houston drew his sword and cut his words.
A young soldier, a witness to the event, wondered : what that brute wanted to say?
Half a century later, we find the same soldier, now at the venerable age of 70 years, facing the same dilemma. What does ””we the people”” mean? He was sitting in the great hall of the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia with a sheet of paper in front of him on which he wrote We the People in huge letters and he was thinking.
Voices are heard, shouted nearby, asking for ink and paper. A young man of about 30 approaches, takes the paper from the table in front of the old man, holds it up and shouts:
-Mr. Madison, Alex here. I found paper.
-Thank you Mr. Hamilton, get it here quickly please.
And so James Madison, on the same page where was written "We The People", began to write what would later that day become the US Constitution.
Now if you're wondering what these words mean, then VOTE We The People and make your dreams come true.
And nightmares.
Why VOTE We The People? Because we are the people.
The One and Only.
If your mind is still clouded and you feel like voting Federalists or Raiders, Sheeps or Marx&Lenin, then just remember that today is Friday the 13th. Bad luck, don't do it.
Ține minte 3 cuvinte! --- WE THE PEOPLE --- VOTE for it
Love you!! Allegretto.
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Nice. Good luck to you.
Can't resist a comment on the opening scene though...
"the brute"? LOL. I mean. Santa Anna was many things. Not all good. He tried to be on every side of every issue. But within all of that, and despite his faults, he repeatedly fought to expel dictators, to defend his country from invaders, and to oppose colonialism, slavery and imperialism. On top of that, he had tremendous charisma and style. To reduce his legacy to simpy "the brute" feels like an exercise in extreme reductionism, with a spicy flavoring of colonialist hubris added.
And "drew his sword and cut his words"? Not sure, but it sounds like this is implying that Sam Houston cut Santa Anna's throat. Sam Houston, himself a complex and interesting character who held multiple confllcting views during his lifetime, did not kill Santa Anna, as the article seems to suggest. General Santa Anna was not mistreated, just as General Houston was not mistreated during his two years under arrest in Mexico City. Santa Anna was released following the surrender and massacre of Mexican troops at San Jacinto; he went on to play a role in Mexican politics for years to come.
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In the eyes of texans he was a brute, alright. "Remember Alamo" was his doom in Texas campaign of him.
You never saw someone cutting words? I did. But you're right, not all the time they use swords, you can do that empty-handed. 🙂 🙂
A few corrections to your history lesson:
- It wasn't Huston who was jailed, Austin was.
- not 2 years but 8 months
- it was not a massacre at San Jacinto, but a defeat. The massacres took place at the Alamo and Goliad.
And as a bonus, I will say that Santa Anna played the biggest role in destroying the future of Mexicans. It was he who abolished their Constitution and their Federal System. he was the one who plunged Mexico into a dictatorship.
Also, your understanding of the SFP appears to be confused. It's Groucho Marx and John Lennon who we follow, but only on alternate Tuesdays, with the ideological lead taken by Voltairine de Cleyre on the alternating Tuesday. Then it's Bakunin and Makhno on Wednesdays, except for the "hard core" faction, who follow the lead of Lucio Urtubia. On Thursdays, we mostly just follow our bliss. The rest of the days are optional, ideologically speaking.
Exactly what I've said, Marx&Lennon 🙂