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For any that believe that the Atlantic Ocean is "Theirs" and it is a utopian right to have access to every inch and ounce of it should read the Constitution.
States and individuals have rights because of the Constitution.
Introduced as the Articles of the Confederation they were revised 5 years later and resubmitted for a vote to the states for ratification. It was unanimously approved by 12 states with one abstaining. You guessed it Rhode Island. At the time RI was a collective society of farmers and merchants who believed in equal representation for the common man. Other states were being governed by the upper classes and Rhode Island felt an obligation to represent the lower class working public.
So the arguement that this is some "Communist plot", etc. is far from the truth. RI was FAR more communist in the 1780's. You wish should be that they ARE a collective society today. That would have not allowed for this to happen.
My how times have changed..............
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