Lisa, I will have to plead ignorance. About 12 years ago I read in passing that the Dutch declaration of Independence (I like their word 'abjuration!) resembled the American. I thought of asking my Dutch friend to translate it, back then, but didn't. Anyway, you can get it from Google in English, as I did today. There's almost 400 years between the two documents and I have no idea if "our guys" were in cahoots with the Dutch.
(I sure do know that the Brits were all kissy-kissy with Wm of Orange but that was in the 1680s.) Oh, come to think of it, I learned that the Mayflower, en route to Plymouth MA, in 1620, made a stop in Holland to pick up Puritan passengers. Could be meaningful.
God forbid anyone surmise that I have special knowledge of the Dec. I do not. But I have ordinary knowledge of it. Please see my article yesterday at Substack, "Understanding the Dec and the Con." I lack the skill to link it here. (I cannot even FIND my substack; I got your notice by email.) Swearda God there are septuagenarians running around who are helpless. Rappaport is professedly an octogenarian, but most likely he knows computers inside out.
No, I don't think the word "plagiarize" is apt. Everyone is allowed to copy ideas.
Thank you for a kind answer and I will try to find your substack. I'm right behind you. I'm 59. I think our founders knew a good idea when they saw it.
And yet who but the founders read it and understood it and found it applied to the US. Are you saying they plagiarized? Huh.
Lisa, I will have to plead ignorance. About 12 years ago I read in passing that the Dutch declaration of Independence (I like their word 'abjuration!) resembled the American. I thought of asking my Dutch friend to translate it, back then, but didn't. Anyway, you can get it from Google in English, as I did today. There's almost 400 years between the two documents and I have no idea if "our guys" were in cahoots with the Dutch.
(I sure do know that the Brits were all kissy-kissy with Wm of Orange but that was in the 1680s.) Oh, come to think of it, I learned that the Mayflower, en route to Plymouth MA, in 1620, made a stop in Holland to pick up Puritan passengers. Could be meaningful.
God forbid anyone surmise that I have special knowledge of the Dec. I do not. But I have ordinary knowledge of it. Please see my article yesterday at Substack, "Understanding the Dec and the Con." I lack the skill to link it here. (I cannot even FIND my substack; I got your notice by email.) Swearda God there are septuagenarians running around who are helpless. Rappaport is professedly an octogenarian, but most likely he knows computers inside out.
No, I don't think the word "plagiarize" is apt. Everyone is allowed to copy ideas.
Thank you for a kind answer and I will try to find your substack. I'm right behind you. I'm 59. I think our founders knew a good idea when they saw it.