FUN FACTS (no really): 21 Things You May Not Know About the U.S. Constitution

stupid, the article ignores the FACT that it was WRITTEN in FRENCH first and foremost! Then translated.

Well, if true, add it to the list, but I have never heard that.

Got a link?

Last Edited by Jillian Snark on 09/23/2018 03:41 AM

No, our Constitution was never written in French, francotard.

The original draft opening of the US Constitution with the French in it...

Mon Dieu! We the fucking People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect fucking Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility (delete where applicable), provide for the common fucking defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Fucking Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and, tabanac, our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of fucking America.

Article. I.
Section. 1.
All legislative fucking Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the Fucking United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives and, Mon Dieu, we'll fucking fill this bit in tomorrow.

Section. 2.
The Fucking House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second/third/fourth (delete where fucking applicable) Year by the Fucking People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.

And, fuckin'shit, no Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the Fucking United States, and who shall not, tabanac, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that fucking State in which he shall be chosen.

Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this fucking Union, according to their respective fucking Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole/part/fifteen (tabanac, sort this out tomorrow at the printers) Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding fucking Indians not taxed, three fifths/sixths/sevenths (Patrick Henry, ask the fucking printers to leave it blank until we decide) of all other Persons. And, tabanac, the actual Enumeration shall be made within three fucking Years after the first fucking Meeting of the Congress of the fucking United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten fucking Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct, comprendez? The Number of fucking Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each fucking State shall have at Least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New-York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five, Quebec, forty-eight and Georgia three.

When vacancies happen in the Representation from any fucking State, the Executive Authority thereof shall issue fucking Writs of Election to fill such Vacancies.

The Fucking House of Representatives shall chuse (check the spelling on this, George, before Patrick goes to the printers) their Speaker/bellboy/carpet-cleaners (fill this in, Patrick, when you're at the printers) and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.

Mon Dieu!

Hahaha. I loved that scene.

Tell us more about the alternative timeline you shifted from where the U.S. forefathers immigrated here from Quebec and rebelled against the despotic rule of Prime Minister MacDonald, 40 years before he was born.



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As you can see from this part of the original wording of the Constitution, some of the delgates seemed somehow unhappy at including Quebec in the United States Of America...

"The Number of fucking Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each fucking State shall have at Least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New-York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five, Quebec, forty-eight and Georgia three."

WIKIPEDIA (You can check this)...

John Graves Simcoe (25 February 1752 – 26 October 1806) was a British Army general and the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada from 1791 until 1796 in southern Ontario and the watersheds of Georgian Bay and Lake Superior. He founded York (now Toronto) and was instrumental in introducing institutions such as courts of law, trial by jury, English common law, and freehold land tenure, and also in the abolition of slavery in Canada.

...So, with the Donald Trump of the era running Canada and backed by all those happy freed slaves happy to back the British Crown, is it any wonder that the Revolution sort of petered out in Canada?

Thread: My God our forefathers were true geniuses

Five star thread, OP.