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They were striving for reform based on English law
Is that not something "better"? It may sound silly but who would want to form a government worse than the one they have declared independence from? They saw some of what the Iroquois did as something worth emulating so they did.

Once again, I have never claimed the constitution is based solely on the Great Law.
 

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There was a whole sentence there. And others before and after it. They go together. Like in a paragraph.

The main problem with your argument is that it is based on sources a couple of centuries after the events. The people who wrote the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution wrote lots of other things. Some about the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution. And they wrote a lot about Classical history, Enlightenment philosophy, and British law.

The document that you gave us lists a few vague principles from the Great Law next to very specific language from the Constitution that happens to have been written about in the Federalist and Anti-Federalist papers. With lots of specific references to English law, Enlightenment philosophy, and Classical history. Generalities that were common to a great many systems of government. Within a few yards of where I sit I could pull more concrete parallels from early Chinese philosophers. Yet I would not call the Constitution a Confucian document.

As I mentioned, the idea of a Confederation operating by concensus between the states was in part inspired by the Iroquois. But after the inability of the colonies to react forcefully to Shay's Rebrllion almost ended the system they largely abandoned those elements in favor of a strong Federal government. When Washington was able to raise an army and quickly put down the Whiskey Rebellion it demonstrated the effectiveness of the Constitutional government.
 

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When the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, Brian Thompson, was killed in a targeted shooting Wednesday morning in New York, politicians from his home state of Minnesota posted sympathetic messages on social media. But those responses of support were soon drowned out by a very different tone, as people shared horror stories of being denied covered by the health insurance company and made morbid jokes comparing the CEO’s death to the ways they’ve been mistreated by the U.S. health care system.

A Facebook post by UnitedHealth Group, the parent company of UnitedHealthcare, said it was “deeply saddened and shocked at the passing of our dear friend and colleague Brian Thompson.” But that post has garnered over 11,000 laughing emojis as of the time of this writing, far outweighing the more somber emojis used to express condolences. Comments have been turned off for that post, but shares included comments like “I would offer thoughts and prayers but they are not covered as they are out of network.”
 

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Intense.
“With complex arrays of LEDs and of optics,” he said, “car companies realized they can engineer in a dark spot where it’s being measured, but the rest of the field is vastly over-illuminated. And I’ve had now two car companies’ engineers, when I played stupid and said, ‘What’s the dark spot?’ … And the lighting engineers are all fucking proud of themselves: ‘That’s where they measure the fucking thing!’ And I’m like, ‘You assholes, you’re the reason that every fucking new car is blinding the shit out of everyone.’”
Asleep at the Wheel in the Headlight Brightness Wars
 

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Makes me want to carry around a bat. As someone who walks and bikes, I hate those lights. I can’t even imagine how dangerous and frustrating it is for other drivers.
It's insane. I really hate being on a rural road when one of those cars comes toward me and the headlights are so blinding I literally can't see anything else at all! When I flick my high beams at them, they flick theirs back, but, honestly, I can barely tell the difference!
 

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Apparently, all sex that doesn't lead to procreation is gay sex.

Right-wing couple and MAGA influencers Isabella and Josiah Moody appeared on an episode of Luke Beasley’s new weekly YouTube show The Grudge, and a clip from their conversation is currently going viral on X (formerly Twitter) because of the absolutely wild things the husband said about sex.

“The best part about having sex is reproduction,” Josiah explained. Seriously. I don’t value sex because of an orgasm, Ivalue sex because I know that I am going to reproduce and have another baby.” Sounds like something someone would say if they aren’t good in bed, but I digress.

“Maybe the orgasms aren’t good enough. Kidding. Sorry,” Beasley said under his breath in response.
“As soon as we’re together, it’s like no birth control, no nothing, because I’m not going to have gay sex. Gay sex is more than just another man and a man, it’s just the idea of looking at sex as such a materialistic thing and just like, ‘Oh well, we just have an orgasm, and that’s fun or whatever.’”