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DNdael.bsky.social

Tomorrow is a BIG day for me, intra-tiny-state rivalry-wise, in my early US history lecture course (we're covering the ratification of the Constitution)

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SSatomicanalyst.bsky.social

Today in 1963, the Limited Test Ban Treatyā€”shown being signed by President John F. Kennedy on October 7 after US Senate ratificationā€”entered into force, ending 18 years of unconstrained atmospheric nuclear testing by the United States (215 tests), the Soviet Union (219), and the United Kingdom (21).

A color photograph of President John F. Kennedy sitting at a desk in the White House and signing a copy of the Limited Test Ban Treaty, as a group of senators stands behind him. Vice President Lyndon Johnson stands at the far right in the dark suit, hands clasped.
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JDjamesdebord.bsky.social

ā€œ we have to judge them by the standards of their timeā€ ā€œOK hereā€™s a list of the 700,000 enslaved people at the time of the Constitution's ratificationā€ ā€œDefinitely not those standardsā€

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SWsteveinburnaby.bsky.social

Bringing up a proposal that would require the ratification by 38 states is not something that needs to be talked about right now All it does is weaken the message that Kamala Harris and Tim Walz must concentrate on www.rawstory.com/tim-walz-266...

'Mobocracy': MAGA melts down over Tim Walz's call to end Electoral College
'Mobocracy': MAGA melts down over Tim Walz's call to end Electoral College

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the running mate for Vice President Kamala Harris, advocated for eliminating the Electoral College during a fundraiser at California Gov. Gavin Newsom's private home, accordin...

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MNnifhla.bsky.social

Also this announcement brings us right in line with where we were in 2017: the Gov had agreed we imminently ratify the OP. They had printed little road map to ratification pamphlets. There was graphics.

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MNnifhla.bsky.social

I think the OP ratification is a good thing and I raised absolute hell when they secretly dropped it in 2018. Looking back now it is clear how the State has used it to delay ratifying the convention for a decade and then made the OP the focus not meaningful reform.

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Ttechpriest.bsky.social

The 27th amendmentpassed only because a 19 year old college student noticed in the 1970s that Congress had never revoked the ratification process for a proposal in *1789* and after another push the archivist of the US declared it eventually ratified 202 years later The constitution is a museum

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NWwritewiser.bsky.social

That's unfair to socialists, Molly, they are prepared to hold the revolution next week, they just need another planning session, at which they will select an organizing committee, and following ratification of the principles agreed upon by the previous planning session, everything should be ready.

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