IP: Celebrating the Fourth

[R. A. Hettinga]

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Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 21:02:48 -0400
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From: David Farber <dave at farber.net>
Subject: IP: Celebrating the Fourth
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>To: David Farber <dave at farber.net>
>From: Whitfield Diffie <whitfield.diffie at sun.com>
>
>                                 Tuesday   3 July 2001  at 17h45
>
>     In 1994, I sent the following message to the Cypherpunks"
>
>   From: whitfield.diffie at Eng.Sun.COM
>   To: cypherpunks at toad.com
>   Subject: Celebrating the 4th
>   Date: Fri,  1 Jul 1994 at 13h01
>
>       On the 4th of July 1993, I walked out of my house and saw my
>   neighbor's flag flying from the porch.  I thought: ``I have no flag
>   to fly; how shall I celebrate Independence Day?''  I went back
>   inside and got Gunther's Casebook in Constitutional Law.  At
>   breakfast, I re-read the Constitution.  A practice I recommend to
>   all of you.
>
>       I subsequently acquired online copies of the Constitution, and the
>   even more appropriate Declaration of Independence from Danny Weitzner
>   at EFF.  Plain TeX copies are attached below, separated by a
>   --- cut here --- line.
>                                   (snip)
>
>(It seemed corny but I couldn't figure out how to improve on it since it
>was true.)  Today the Constitution and the Declaration are readily
>available on the web and still worth reading once a year.
>
>                                         Whit



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