• @[email protected]English
    13•9 months ago

    grammatical animacy (“it” vs “they”) aside, its not as easy to get it/it’s right as some commenters suggest. the authors of the constitution got it wrong too. the error has it’s own few decades of historical precedent. 🙃

    No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it’s inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress.

    • @SpaceNoodle
      11•9 months ago

      They could barely agree on how words were spelled back then.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•9 months ago

        turns out codifying one single spelling for an incredibly diverse language and forcing all of its speakers to stick to it was slightly more difficult than founding a new genre of government

        (edit this was meant to be a funny silly little comment not biting satire so you all can stop dogpiling me now you make this website miserable)

          • @[email protected]English
            0•9 months ago

            “Democracy did not start in the US.”

            hello you are literally shoving words in my mouth. i said i like pancakes and you said “oh so you hate waffles?” stop it.

            i never said democracy started in the US. the US was the first country to adopt a federal constitutional republic, thank you very much. 😪😪😪