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  • Phil Dowson@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•This is not the US constitution; it used to be, but Article I, part of section 8, & all of sections 9 & 10 have been removedEnglish
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    Benjamin felt a nose nuzzling at his shoulder. He looked round. It was Clover. Her old eyes looked dimmer than ever. Without saying anything, she tugged gently at his mane and led him round to the end of the big barn, where the Seven Commandments were written. For a minute or two they stood gazing at the tatted wall with its white lettering.

    “My sight is failing,” she said finally. “Even when I was young I could not have read what was written there. But it appears to me that that wall looks different. Are the Seven Commandments the same as they used to be, Benjamin?”

    For once Benjamin consented to break his rule, and he read out to her what was written on the wall. There was nothing there now except a single Commandment. It ran:

    ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL

    BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS