The 5000 Year Leap : A Miracle That Changed the World

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Yeah, somehow our President, asking another country's President to look into possible corruption is an impeachable offense..?
Let's get back to the point the creation of American was a turning point in world history... http://declarationofindependencehistory.weebly.com/global-influence.html/

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“More than half of the 192 countries now represented at the United Nations have a founding document that can be called a declaration of independence” - David Armitage in his essay The Declaration of Independence in Global Perspective

Since 1776, there have been approximately 120 declarations of independence made by different countries and different peoples.

The US Declaration of Independence was not the very first document able to be called a declaration of independence (Scotland and the Netherlands did so first). However, there is little doubt that among written proclamations of independence, the United States Declaration of Independence (DoI for short) is the most impactful of them all. The impact of this document is limited not only to the United States, in the two centuries since its creation, the Declaration of Independence has had a global impact. The DoI states "let Facts be submitted to a candid world" (the facts being the reasons why the US rightfully should split from Britain). This single phrase indicates that Jefferson and his lesser co-authors of the DoI intended for the world to read it, for their self-interest of hoping other countries would support the United States in its Revolution. Yet they also might have wished in their lofty dreams for bettering human civilization, that others would be persuaded by the DoI to bring such ideals as freedom and equality to their parts of the world.

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First, let us examine several documents from aboard that were inspired by the US Declaration of Independence:
  • The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen (1789)- This isn't a declaration of independence, but it is the crowning idealogical statement of the French Revolution. One of its key draftsmen was the Marquis de Lafayette, the famed general who became a close friend of George Washington and helped the US win the Revolutionary War. Later, he also befriended Thomas Jefferson, the father of the DoI, while he was US Ambassador to France. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen combines the American idealism of the DoI and intermixes it with more uniquely French Enlightenment intellectual thought.
The Liberian Declaration of Independence (1846)- Liberia, a West African nation that endures to this day, was uniquely founded by the American Colonization Society. The American Colonization Society was a racist, yet possibly pro-black for its time organization that sought to solve the race problems of the US by sending freed blacks back to Africa and settling them in a colony there. The Liberian Declaration of Independence is not revolutionary, and in that sense it is odd. It is a formal break between the African nation-state and its founding company the American Colonization Society. Furthermore, it lists grievances against the United States, including "peculiar institutions of the country" (slavery), but the Liberians are not indicting the US, so much as they are thanking the American Colonization Society for removing them from these problems.

The Proclamation of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (1945)- Written by Ho Chi Minh himself, the revolutionary leader of Vietnam. He directly references both the US Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen and boldly declares Vietnamese independence. Ironically, due to Ho Chi Minh's ardent Communism, the US would stand against him during the Vietnam War.

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Furthermore, “the great majority of the unilateral declarations of independence issued after 1776 made no direct reference to the American Declaration” (From Armitage's The Declaration of Independence in World Context).

At the very least, the DoI began the modern genre of political literature called declarations of independence. It made a formal document proclaiming independence very much a political asset or basic need. It offered a template of powerful and eloquent word choice, and a strong formal structure that could be drawn from.





 

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Something More... inspiration is the IoD secret power...

The Declaration of Independence has also been a source of inspiration outside the United States. It encouraged Antonio de Nariño and Francisco de Miranda to strive toward overthrowing the Spanish empire in South America, and it was quoted with enthusiasm by the Marquis de Mirabeau during the French Revolution. It remains a great historical landmark in that it contained the first formal assertion by a whole people of their right to a government of their own choice. What Locke had contended for as an individual, the Americans proclaimed as a body politic. Moreover, they made good the argument by force of arms.
 

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.. He was one of the better characters on Babalyon 5... Their society was all about Nepotism /Corruption... and wanting to reenslave those lizard people...
I wanted to change my avatar to somebody deep in corruption and nepotism, somebody unreal and funny
narn, but the centauri had an interesting religion, too
the B5 episode about religion is crossfranchise one of the best SciFi episodes ever. I was thunderstruck when I watched the end scene 4 the first time.
 

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What about our Constitution... changed the world too...

The United States constitution introduced several new ideas to the world which would change the way governments were to be defined. It defined certain qualifications that each member of the government body must have, as well as the manners of election. The constitution limited the power of governments and gave it to the people, something that had not yet been done yet.
 

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I wanted to change my avatar to somebody deep in corruption and nepotism, somebody unreal and funny
I say you succeed in your task by finding this Centauri...

the B5 episode about religion is crossfranchise one of the best SciFi episodes ever. I was thunderstruck when I watched the end scene 4 the first time.
Which B5 episode for they had a few with relgion in them...
 
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Expand your horizons. I did.
The date that changed the world …

somehow our President
This moment changed mankind forever...

narn, but the centauri
I do not know why this date is not celebrated in our history books because something happen that either never happened or it was rare or completely unusual happened… This historic was March 4. 1797 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Have you figured it out...

The inauguration of John Adams as the second President of the United States was held on Saturday, March 4, 1797, in the House of Representatives Chamber of Congress Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Last chance to guess... The peaceful transfer of governmental leadership, or political Leadership took place... maybe Thomas Jefferson's maybe more historic because that involved a change of political parties...

The first inauguration of Thomas Jefferson as the third President of the United States was held on Wednesday, March 4, 1801.

This is probably the greatest gift our nation gave to the world... The peaceful transfer of power, of authority and leadership...
 

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This is probably the greatest gift our nation gave to the world... The peaceful transfer of power, of authority and leadership...
So know one contest this idea or notion... or does everyone support the notion... The peaceful transfer of power is a rare thing throughout history... and giving it up to your rival what was America thinking...
 

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So know one contest this idea or notion... or does everyone support the notion... The peaceful transfer of power is a rare thing throughout history... and giving it up to your rival what was America thinking...
Not sure about that .San Marino has been an independent republic since 301 AD. A quick look at Wiki does not show a history of civil strife after one leader succeeds another.
Not seeing a history of slavery in San Marino. Yes its a small nation but still the US might not want to claim credit for being the founder of peaceful transfer of power.
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San Marino has been an independent republic since 301 AD.
They wrote a letter to Abe Lincoln... from wiki...

The government of San Marino made United States President Abraham Lincoln an honorary citizen. He wrote in reply, saying that the republic proved that "government founded on republican principles is capable of being so administered as to be secure and enduring."[16][17]

San Marino had the world's first democratically elected communist government – a coalition between the Sammarinese Communist Party and the Sammarinese Socialist Party, which held office between 1945 and 1957.[24][25]


I do not know they were occupied by the Germans and then by the Allied forces... in 1944... from wiki... does not occupation end your independence... I also would not be surprised if they had been occupied during the medieval ages at different times...

The Battle of San Marino was an engagement on 17–20 September 1944 during the Italian Campaign of the Second World War, in which German Army forces occupied the neutral Republic of San Marino, and were then attacked by Allied forces. It is also sometimes known as the Battle of Monte Pulito.

I argue...

It's our nation's peaceful transfer of power is what the world thinks of ...





 

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They wrote a letter to Abe Lincoln... from wiki...

The government of San Marino made United States President Abraham Lincoln an honorary citizen. He wrote in reply, saying that the republic proved that "government founded on republican principles is capable of being so administered as to be secure and enduring."[16][17]

San Marino had the world's first democratically elected communist government – a coalition between the Sammarinese Communist Party and the Sammarinese Socialist Party, which held office between 1945 and 1957.[24][25]


I do not know they were occupied by the Germans and then by the Allied forces... in 1944... from wiki... does not occupation end your independence... I also would not be surprised if they had been occupied during the medieval ages at different times...

The Battle of San Marino was an engagement on 17–20 September 1944 during the Italian Campaign of the Second World War, in which German Army forces occupied the neutral Republic of San Marino, and were then attacked by Allied forces. It is also sometimes known as the Battle of Monte Pulito.

I argue...

It's our nation's peaceful transfer of power is what the world thinks of ...




Being occupied by a foreign power has nothing to do with the concept of a peaceful transfer of power . My piinp is simply that the United States did not bequeath to the world the concept of peacefully transferring power.
Having a democratically elected communist government also has nothing to do with the peaceful transfer of power.
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Having a democratically elected communist government also has nothing to do with the peaceful transfer of power.
I know I just thought it was cool they elected the communist to power during the Cold war... I do know many local places in Northern Itlay elected Communist into power during the Cold war years...
 

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I know I just thought it was cool they elected the communist to power during the Cold war... I do know many local places in Northern Itlay elected Communist into power during the Cold war years...
there was also no firefight passing over power with those commies (in and out, that is). yes, methinks it does matter. just consider for a second montana voting in a commie governour
 

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I know I just thought it was cool they elected the communist to power during the Cold war... I do know many local places in Northern Itlay elected Communist into power during the Cold war years...
I will give you that. Fortunately San Marino was to small to matter much in terms of geopolitics but that's a good thing.
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I will give you that. Fortunately San Marino was to small to matter much in terms of geopolitics but that's a good thing.
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it was too small, period. nobody invaded them when they chose that rediculous form of government or later. and, believe me, invading your neighbours for having the wrong form of govt was some sort of an european mainstay.
 
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