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Originally Posted by banjomike
That's a stinking pile of manure!
... the President. The single most powerful person on the planet.
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Actually, according to the USCON, the president is the highest ranking public SERVANT, one step DOWN in status from the lowest American sovereign.
However, since the majority of Americans volunteered to be subjects, it would appear that the president is the "leader" of the multitudes. But that was not always the case.
A hundred years ago and more, people knew the difference.
An example of the lost knowledge of our forefathers comes from “The Devil’s Dictionary”, by Ambrose Bierce, a collection of humorous definitions, originally published in a weekly paper starting in 1881.
Apparently his audience knew what he was writing about, though today’s reader would not.
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ALIEN, n. An
American sovereign in his probationary state.
- - - - “The Devil’s Dictionary” (1906), by Ambrose Bierce
(download available from gutenberg.org)
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His audience knew what an “American sovereign” was, to understand the joke.
Today, the "joke" is on us.
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