Louie Gohmert: “I did know that rule. But this was the Treaty of Paris, 1783, and John Adams was there. But this is where we were…”

“I did know that rule. But this was the Treaty of Paris, 1783, and John Adams was there. But this is where we were negotiating with England, the most powerful country in the world, imploring them to recognize this little upstart country of 13 States as an independent country, independent and free of the shackles that were there as Colonies by England. Here they have got the biggest navy. They have an impressive military, most powerful nation, and we are asking them to swear on a document that we in the United States have the right to be free and independent. So as I contemplated that, well, these first words that are in much bigger letters than the rest of the document, began to make sense. What would you have asked somebody swear under, at the beginning of our Nation, asking the most powerful nation in the world to swear that they recognize, something important enough they would not want to break that oath, even with the anger and the despising attitude that many in England had at that time? Well, the words they chose for those big, tall letters, were these, and this is a copy of the copy. ``In the name of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity.'' Well, some say we were started with the Declaration of Independence, recognizing that we are free and, of right, ought to be free because we are endowed by our Creator with these unalienable rights.…”