To Guest/Leonard, The quote: "we hold these truths"..."that all men are created equal"...etc., is from the 'Declaration of Independence' not 'The Constitution' and while certainly having considerable merit in ideology has, in fact no basis in law. The Constitution starts out in the Preamble as "We the People in order to form a more perfect union"..."of the people, by the people and for the people." One of the amendments to the Bill of Rights designates blacks as being counted as 3/5th of a person. Hardly equal wouldn't you say? While I'm no big fan of the Monarchy let's keep the Brit-bashing to a minimum as we haven't exactly been choirboys on this side o'the pond. Some of we Yanks have a tendency to mix up those two documents. One is simply stating an act, while the other is acting a State. Or in our case a group of states.