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Spectral Imaging Reveals Jefferson Nixed 'Subjects' for 'Citizens'

Posted by timothy on from the this-is-cooler-than-unredacting-pdfs dept.

Jamie points out this excellent piece, well timed for America's Independence Day, that says spectrographic evidence has established that the one word Thomas Jefferson fully blotted out from an early draft of the Declaration of Independence was not "resident," or "patriot," but rather "subject." This, he replaced with "citizen."

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  1. Re:Well... by Spykk · · Score: 0, Redundant

    image the Constitution as a tweet

    Better yet, imagine the sort of things that you see on twitter in the style of the constitution:

    We the people of Kappa Delta Phi, in order to procure more libations, absconded with a vehicle of an officer of justice, and did pilot said vehicle drunkenly into a telephone pole. Bummer.