The Occasional Observer

I guess John Jay didn't get the memo on PC language. Bench Memos had the following quote from the Federalist Papers, in which three of our founding fathers (Madison, Hamilton, and Jay) lay out the arguments for the adoption of the U.S. Constitution.

From Federalist No. 2, written by John Jay (later to become first chief justice under the new Constitution):

"Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country, to one united people, a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs, and who, by their joint counsels, arms, and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a long and bloody war, have nobly established their general liberty and independence."

If Jay had the assistance of modern-day America-hating secular liberals to help edit his words, Federalist #2 could have better reflected truthiness:

"Blind luck, self-interest, or randomness brought people to America. They formed a country, established arbitrary borders, imposed their language on the land, professed a religion which suited them (though it is no better and probably worse than most others), carried certain arrogant manners and customs and a general disdain for other cultures, created a government on the principles of representation for the few and subjugation of the many, and then, by their clever planning and the ruthless application of force, established a political regime to allocate power and wealth to a precious few beneficiaries, in violation of their own stated principles of 7/4/1776."