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Today in Supreme Court History: February 15, 1790
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This lawyer fool signed the Declaration of Independence. The tax bite had gone from 1% to 2% of the colonial GDP. All the taxes went to support the military defense of the colonies against the Native American owners of this land. The latter failed to control illegal immigration by whites from Europe, and we know what happened to the Native Americans because of this failure.
The Revolutionary War was one of the greatest lawyer mistakes in our history. The American Revolution caused the Civil War. Had we been a British colony, instead of a lawyer dumbass independent nation, slavery would have ended in 1833, by statute, enforced by a sheriff. Instead, this lawyer mistake caused the deaths of 800000 Americans, like 3 million today. It prevented the resolution of race relations for 150 years.
The lawyer profession is the most toxic occupation in our nation, 10 times more toxic than organized crime. It must be crushed to save our nation.
Scandalous life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rutledge