# Resolved:  Conservatives get whatever they want

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [April 26, 2014, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-conservatives-get-whatever-they-want/687019 "2014-04-26T03:58:01Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 30, 2014, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-conservatives-get-whatever-they-want/687019/87 "2014-04-30T14:17:51Z")

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> [@iiandyiiii](#):
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> Since the Constitution is also a secular document, I kind of set you up for failure there. But it was a very good try 🙂

Not following you here. Your contention was that no weight should be given to the use of “In the Year of Our Lord” because that’s the way all documents were dated. Correct?

And we now we both know that to not be the case. Correct?

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