Talk:Monticello Convention

Article needs extensive clean-up
Much of this entry reads like a 50s-era childrens' textbook. To cite just one example: "...[HBC] livestock would trespass on settlers lands (sic)." The issue of whether livestock belonging to prior-established owners can legally be said to "trespass" on interlopers' presumed property was the very crux of the argument. The example also indicates old-school nationalistic bias in its implication that only Canadian cows ever got loose and trampled their neighbours' corn. A cursory reading of any academically-valid account of the Pig War will establish the true nature of the diplomatic issues of the day.

Aside from such historical clangers, the text suffers from clunky, tortured, or just wrong English. (E.g., verb tense and punctuation in the above-cited example.) In sum, as written, it's not encyclopedic. Laodah 00:52, 10 March 2020 (UTC)