It is not quite correct to say that "Journalism is the first draft of history." In a programmatic sense, they are really the opposite; journalism happens when people who (believe they) know what happened lay out the evidence; history, when people who know the evidence try to figure out what happened. I'm not entirely sure what I'm up to with the following, but it feels like fun, and I think I'll keep doing it for a while.
It remains unclear whether the "Conservative" movement of the late 20th and early 21st centuries in the then United States of America deliberately meant to restore the British constitution of the mid-18th—or whether Lord Cruz, the first Prime Minister, simply found himself in a position in the autumn of 2013 where the restoration was inevitable, and took advantage of it.
Proponents of the latter hypothesis point to the language used by the early Conservatives as evidence that they aimed at nothing more than reinforcing the terms of the 1787 American Constitution: they spoke of the Founding Fathers and the document [jump]
It remains unclear whether the "Conservative" movement of the late 20th and early 21st centuries in the then United States of America deliberately meant to restore the British constitution of the mid-18th—or whether Lord Cruz, the first Prime Minister, simply found himself in a position in the autumn of 2013 where the restoration was inevitable, and took advantage of it.
Proponents of the latter hypothesis point to the language used by the early Conservatives as evidence that they aimed at nothing more than reinforcing the terms of the 1787 American Constitution: they spoke of the Founding Fathers and the document [jump]
