til Hamilton was only 32 or 34 in 1789 (also that we don't know his actual age?) too young to be president when the constitution he helped write came into force

I thought he was like 60. I thought they all were. is this what all the powdered wigs were about?

they wrote the constitution with literal quills who gives a fuck what they thought about guns

literally they dipped a bit of bird feather in ink to write with. they had rifling, but mostly for recreational hunting weapons because they didn't have precision enough to make rifled weapons that worked reliably

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@else i often suspect that some americans treat the constitution the way ultra orthodox jews treat the torah

"this book contains encoded messages for the future, because G-d, who wrote this Himself, obviously, knows the entire future and could thus encode all those messages in there"

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