This work has been declared by the AHA board as historic, and is superseded by Humanist Manifesto III. The Manifesto is a product of many minds. It was designed to represent a developing point of view, not a new creed.
Re: the iron law of oligarchy Aug22-09, 10:47 PM JRDunassigned: The iron law of oligarchy is a political theory, first developed by the German syndicalist sociologist Robert Michels in his 1911 book, Political Parties. This is actually wrong.
Old Ironsides (poem) topic  Old Ironsides  is a poem written by American writer Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. , on September 16, 1830, as a tribute to the eighteenth-century frigate USS Constitution . Thanks in part to the poem, she was saved from being decommissioned and is now the oldest commissioned ship in the world still afloat.