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[–] FlyingSquid -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then, again, what makes a document written before America existed where we get American values from? They would not be American values if they were written before there was an America.

[–] Zoboomafoo 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

In Congress, July 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, ...

America didn't begin with the signing of the Constitution.

[–] FlyingSquid -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It absolutely did. Those states still operated as independent entities. They were united on the issue of declaring independence. Until the Constitution was signed, the states were not united as a nation.

[–] Zoboomafoo 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you think Rome didn't exist before Caesar Augustus took power?

Did England spring from William of Normandy's forehead fully formed, clad in a wool coat and singing Rule Brittania?

[–] FlyingSquid 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Neither of those were multiple independent nations.

[–] Zoboomafoo 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] FlyingSquid 1 points 1 year ago

What's your point? It wasn't one country yet either. I mean that seems to support what I was saying...