tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-759178030677978044.post7262710241294829056..comments2024-02-19T07:24:42.397-08:00Comments on Anglican Curmudgeon: To Fall This Far in 221 YearsA. S. Haleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05108498446058643166noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-759178030677978044.post-26929754478930849912010-07-03T14:57:55.091-07:002010-07-03T14:57:55.091-07:00Right you are, OldCrusader: North Carolina ratifie...Right you are, OldCrusader: North Carolina ratified the Constitution in November 1789, as the 12th State, and Rhode Island became the 13th State in May 1790. (Vermont became the 14th State in March 1791 -- not in time for the First Congress.) I have corrected the text to reflect the fact that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_United_States_Congress" rel="nofollow">there were only 21 senators when the Senate first organized</a> -- New York was dilatory in electing its two senators.<br /><br />Bluebird 272, as I have written in another post, the situation in Washington currently borders on anarchy. Each branch of the government does what it wants to do, with no fear of checks or balances from the other branches. Until the majority in Congress changes, its leadership will continually break the rules with impunity. And the Supreme Court's last word on the subject was that "it is a complete fiction to argue that an unconstitutional federal expenditure causes an individual federal taxpayer any measurable economic harm." (<i><a href="http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2006/2006_06_157" rel="nofollow">Hein v. Freedom From Religion Foundation</a></i>, 551 U.S. 587, 593 [2007].)A. S. Haleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05108498446058643166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-759178030677978044.post-38156909751991393232010-07-03T13:44:28.088-07:002010-07-03T13:44:28.088-07:00Has anyone filed a legal challenge to this travest...Has anyone filed a legal challenge to this travesty?<br /><br />If not, why not?bluebird272https://www.blogger.com/profile/01138572507411756160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-759178030677978044.post-36734918068474727202010-07-03T09:45:28.838-07:002010-07-03T09:45:28.838-07:00I don't see how there could be 26 senators. Th...I don't see how there could be 26 senators. That would imply 13 states. But neither North Carolina, nor Rhode Island had ratified by March of 1789, and New York had not yet recognized the existence of Vermont.TheOldCrusaderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05944385246214730576noreply@blogger.com