Supah_Schmendrick
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Supah_Schmendrick
7d ago
The wiki isn't fantastically put together, but I didn't know about the conflicting sources. I've only ever seen it posited as an established fact, including by some individuals who otherwise defended Churchill. Thanks.
Supah_Schmendrick
7d ago
Churchill gassing the Iraqis just entered the chat.
Supah_Schmendrick
12d ago
The first duty of the American government is to obey the Constitution.
...and the first words of the Constitution are the Preamble:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
The lens through which the rest of the document must be read is one of in-group preference. In fact, just to hammer the point, home, the power (and, implicitly, the duty) to "establish a uniform rule of naturalization" - i.e., standards for who gets let into the in-group, and who has to remain on the outside - is explicitly granted to Congress by Article 1, Section 8. No need to muck around with "necessary and proper" implicit federal powers, like we do for such trivial things as setting up the Fed. No, establishing and policing the boundary between Americans and non-Americans is very much within the scope of the Constitution's mandate.
Supah_Schmendrick
12d ago
I'm not going to pretend I have a definitive answer to this or that I have direct access to primary sources, but I will say your assertion doesn't square with the histories I've read - there I've seen claims that somewhere between 50-80% of the population of al-Andalus were either Iberian converts or muslim transplants from the arabic world/the maghreb, particularly so in the southern bits around Cordoba and Granada. What sources do you have that claim otherwise?
Supah_Schmendrick
13d ago
Christianity also spread this way throughout much of history. Germany, Spain, and South and Central America aren't Christian because of gentle proselytism.
Supah_Schmendrick
13d ago
On behalf of westernized secularized half-Jews, let me assure you that we find Christian Zionists like Huckabee just as weird and creepy as you do.
Strikes me as GenX Jimbob, personally, but YMMV.
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