IP: Celebrating the Fourth

To: David Farber From: Whitfield Diffie

Tuesday 3 July 2001 at 17h45

In 1994, I sent the following message to the Cypherpunks"

From: whitfield.diffie@Eng.Sun.COM To: cypherpunks@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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