tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1030220433025894048.post8938608516410267792..comments2023-11-03T08:02:25.369-04:00Comments on AmericanScience: A Team Blog: A Contest for Writing the New Social Contract: The US Citizens' Terms of Service?David Roth Singermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12841041983824755867noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1030220433025894048.post-69944859385338475242013-07-10T08:15:41.862-04:002013-07-10T08:15:41.862-04:00Hi, Publicus. Thanks again for your comments. Heav...Hi, Publicus. Thanks again for your comments. Heavens no! I don't think there's a Jefferson on our blog, though there are a few good writers (not me). That's why I put a call to all potential Jeffersons the world over, and I'm still hoping we might find one! Otherwise, I fear that we'll give into the temptation to treat the Founders as if they were superhuman.Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14164091550633430973noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1030220433025894048.post-88603463331271804652013-07-10T03:08:34.521-04:002013-07-10T03:08:34.521-04:00It took Jefferson twenty days to write the Declara...It took Jefferson twenty days to write the Declaration of Independence, you say, I infer from this that if only another Jefferson is on the blogroll we will find a new way forward in a week or so!<br /><br />publicus reduxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1030220433025894048.post-45246672490692269672013-07-06T10:24:21.878-04:002013-07-06T10:24:21.878-04:00Thanks for your comment, Publicus. I think it took...Thanks for your comment, Publicus. I think it took Jefferson about 20 days to write the Declaration of Independence. I'm only looking for a first draft. As for the "to whom" question, it's very democratic and open to everyone. Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14164091550633430973noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1030220433025894048.post-27299245356480853462013-07-06T00:13:15.405-04:002013-07-06T00:13:15.405-04:00It took how many years of struggle from Magna Cart...It took how many years of struggle from Magna Carta to the Petition of Right and the revolution and Restoration then the Glorious Revolution and then The Enlightenment to produce the Declaration of Independence - from which Jefferson was required to strike the passage denouncing the institution of slavery... and you give - to whom, precisely - teo weeks to produce a "better" document? What, I wonder, is in the air in DC that leads you to think this makes any sense at all? Perhaps I'm exhibiting a total failure of imagination, but I belie e the difficulties confronting us are as little likely to be eased by a bill of rights modeled on the agreement to use ADOBE as it was to be solved by a bunch of elf-described "creative" types from a park by Wall Street. <br />publicus reduxnoreply@blogger.com