6 Jun
2013
6 Jun
'13
7:36 p.m.
On Thu, 06 Jun 2013 12:21:11 -0700, Owen DeLong said:
As an example, I'm quite certain that if the US Congress passed a law stating that we would tax all Spanish citizens residing on Spanish soil $100 per year in perpetuity, that law would have the following problems:
Skip the hypotheticals. Go read Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, and pay *very* careful attention to the exact wording, and where it applied, and where it didn't apply. tl;dr: What they taught you in history and what it actually says are probably different, unless you had a *really* cool history teacher. ;)