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Declaration of Independence
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The correction is in the part of the declaration concerning grievances against King George III.

"It had been a spine-tingling moment when I was processing data late at night and realized there was a word underneath citizens," said scientist Fenella France, who revealed the correction at the LoC's labs, in a press release. "Then I began the tough process of extracting the differences between spectrally similar materials to elucidate the lost text."

According to the Library, the correction was suspected in the past--similar language exists in state constitutions--but not demonstrable until now.

Jefferson changed 'subjects' to 'citizens' in Declaration of Independence
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Dr. Fenella France, a research chemist at the Library of Congress, shows recent imaging of the document. (Susan Walsh - AP)

Librarian of Congress James Billington discusses a correction in the rough draft of the Declaration of Independence. (Susan Walsh - AP)

A Library of Congress researcher explains the computer imaging analysis that proves Jefferson originally wrote "subject" then changed it to "citizen." (Susan Walsh - AP)

By Marc Kaufman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, July 3, 2010

"Subjects."

That's what Thomas Jefferson first wrote in an early draft of the Declaration of Independence to describe the people of the 13 colonies.

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With the stroke of a pen, 'subjects' no more
'Subjects' of attention
But in a moment when history took a sharp turn, Jefferson sought quite methodically to expunge the word, to wipe it out of existence and write over it. Many words were crossed out and replaced in the draft, but only one was obliterated.

Over the smudge, Jefferson then wrote the word "citizens."

Dr. Fenella France
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2007: Fenella France
Educational Background:

Ph.D., Textile Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ
MBA,Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia

Past Experience:

Scientific Analyst and Project Manager, World Trade Center 9/11 Project, Port Authority of New York/New Jersey.
Preservation Scientist, Star-Spangled Banner Project, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D. C.
Textile Analyst, American Museum of Natural History, New York.
Research Scientist, Treasures Gallery Rehabilitation Project, National Park Service, Ellis Island, New York.
Environmental Researcher and Analyst, 1812 Period Flags, Peebles Island, New York.
Environmental and Lighting Researcher, Historic House Trust of New York.
Data Manager, Web-Accessible Fiber Reference Imaging Library, National Park Service
Research & International Postgraduate Research Manager/Research Fellow, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.

Boing Boing
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Imagine these folks like this passing out free textbooks, running holistic programs for kids, creating local knowledge management systems, launching microfinance projects, mobilebanking and complementary currencies. Helping rural landowners apply climate foresight and farm biodiversity. Building cheap, smart, quality housing for displaced people (not to mention better refugee camps), or an Open Architecture Network for cheap informal rehabs of run-down suburban housing. Hacking together DIY windmills and ad hoc smart grids, communication systems, water treatment systems -- and getting really good atadaptive reuses of outdated infrastructure. In other words, these folks would be redistributing the future at a furious clip.

Citizens or subjects
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Monday, March 14, 2005
A Citizen or a Subject
What is the difference between a citizen, and a subject?

Very simple. A citizen has rights, a subject has priviliges.

Some believe that one can be free in a monarchy, if the laws are structured properly. That in fact, their societies can be more free than more democratic ones, because the head of state can overrule any law that would violate the freedoms of the peope.

Others believe that since no government, no matter how it is structured, can be depended upon to not vote itself more power, more money, and more control; that anarchy is the solution, and in fact only under anarchy can people be free.

I have to make clear, both of these thoughts are entirely mistaken.

There is no monarchy, even a constitutional monarchy, where the people are truly free. It comes down to the difference between a citizen, and a subject.

There is no way that anarchy can exist without the weak becoming subject to the strong.

It is as citizens, participating in a free state, where we are subject to none but ourselves, but where we are citizens bound by justifiable laws, that we are most free as a people.

As individuals we may be more free under anarchy for a time, but as a people, the strong will dominate the weak, and our society as a whole will suffer for it, as will each individual member within it eventually; But that's a second order effect that anarchists dont tend to see. They don't follow their argument to its eventual end.

It all comes down to the difference between a citizen, and a subject.

Even though our government has overreached greatly, and grown into the monster it is today, we are still at core free men, different from almost all others in this world.

Taking as an examle Britain; as a subject of the queen, technically speaking you don't have any rights, you have whatever priviliges the queen allows you.