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S_E_Fudd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-10-09 11:16 AM
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Looks like we are going to need to change the preamble to the Constitution...
Edited on Thu Sep-10-09 11:16 AM by S_E_Fudd
How about this...


"We the Fortune 500, in order to form a more perfect corporation, establish market share, provide for increased shareholder equity, and secure the blessings of wealth to ourselves and our heirs and assigns forever, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."


http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/analysis-two-precedents-in-jeopardy/
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Ozymanithrax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-10-09 11:21 AM
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1. You mean, "these United States"
Before the civil war, the "United States" was plural.
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S_E_Fudd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-10-09 11:22 AM
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2. Colloquially that is true...at least in the South...
But I took the language from the existing text
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