Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: The Declaration of Independence had to be a cohousing project!

[Racheli Gai (racheli]

What about the fact that only white male property owners got to  
participate in the deliberations? :)

Racheli.

On Jul 2, 2011, at 9:45 AM, David Heimann wrote:

> Hello Fellow Cohousers,
>
>         As I see it, the Declaration of Independence had to be a  
> cohousing
> project.  After all:
>
>         o  It took about a year to decide on it.
>
>         o  The draft was written by a committee.
>
>         o  It was adopted by consensus after virtually an infinite  
> number
> of meetings and discussions.
>
>         o  The vote to declare independence took place on July 2,  
> but by
> the time they finished going over the document, removing whole  
> sections,
> rewording others, and finally voting to adopt the whole thing, it  
> was July 4.
>
>         o  It took the rest of the month to get the word out to all  
> the
> colonies.
>
>
>         See?  It *had* to be a cohousing project!
>
>
> Happy Independence Day!
> David Heimann
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