03-27-2018, 06:39 PM
(03-27-2018, 06:34 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: I get that, as well as the time it was written. I have to think that free persons was meant to include freed former slaves, before they were granted citizenship, along with all of the people who chose to immigrate legally and have not achieved citizenship. However, are illegal immigrants really "free persons"? Aren't they actually fugitives of Justice?
We count prisoners, who aren't free persons.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
