Comments on: Food, Drink, and the Declaration of Independence http://www.theagitator.com/2012/07/04/food-drink-and-the-declaration-of-independence/ It rankles me when somebody tries to tell somebody what to do. Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:06:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: GJAN http://www.theagitator.com/2012/07/04/food-drink-and-the-declaration-of-independence/comment-page-1/#comment-3516568 GJAN Mon, 09 Jul 2012 19:24:18 +0000 http://www.theagitator.com/?p=25315#comment-3516568 Interesting paper and a good reminder of what we do on a daily basis and don’t even recognize..

I was quite intrigued when I first learned the historic meaning of “the pub” and “the bar,” with the bar not meaning the long table that drinks where served but actually, literally, the bars that were dropped over the long table, closing the space to liquor service. Thence the pub, or rather “public”, use of the tavern space took over for the discussion of more important, current affairs involving the larger group in attendance.

]]> By: TGGP http://www.theagitator.com/2012/07/04/food-drink-and-the-declaration-of-independence/comment-page-1/#comment-3496660 TGGP Thu, 05 Jul 2012 23:30:42 +0000 http://www.theagitator.com/?p=25315#comment-3496660 Lots of people don’t know this, but the 3rd amendment has been violated by our government repeatedly during wars.

]]> By: Pete http://www.theagitator.com/2012/07/04/food-drink-and-the-declaration-of-independence/comment-page-1/#comment-3491266 Pete Wed, 04 Jul 2012 22:28:30 +0000 http://www.theagitator.com/?p=25315#comment-3491266 “and the expense is borne by all of us rather than only by the well-off as was then the case”.

Nope. Almost half of all Americans pay no federal income taxes.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/28/46-percent-of-americans-e_n_886293.html

]]> By: Mairead http://www.theagitator.com/2012/07/04/food-drink-and-the-declaration-of-independence/comment-page-1/#comment-3490383 Mairead Wed, 04 Jul 2012 18:30:34 +0000 http://www.theagitator.com/?p=25315#comment-3490383 the quartering of British troops (very much including the compelled provisioning of food and drink) was one of the American colonists’ greatest grievances against the British in the period leading up to the American Revolution. Hence, the Third Amendment.

However, one the Constitution was ratified and Washington got the standing army he wanted, we have again been required to provide housing, food, and drink to soldiers, and it continues to this very day.

But we notice the imposition less because it’s applied impersonally and obfuscated, and the expense is borne by all of us rather than only by the well-off as was then the case.

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