(07-23-2018, 10:16 PM)jj82284 Wrote:

(07-23-2018, 08:47 PM)mikesez Wrote: All that "blessings of liberty" has to mean is that we are "liberated" from Britain and from kings.  Those were the unifying themes of the war.
They didn't agree about what liberties individuals had or didn't have and they weren't ready to have that discussion.
The constitutional convention dodged that topic.
The bill of rights sort of addressed it two years later, but it didn't apply to the States.

HAS to mean?  Lol.  At least you acknowledge ur grabbing at straws.  

The unifying theme of the war was articulated in the doi.  Individual rights vs. The rights of the monarch was critical to that.  Also critical was the "thousand tyrants" meaning the idea of a legislature so powerful that it could unilaterally violate individual rights in the same manner as a king.  That's why we have a system of limited government through constitutional republicanism.  This stands in stark contrast to contemporary constitutions and charters that express or guarantee rights of the state on behalf of the collective at the expense of the individual.