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jp76

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32. Bill of Rights mistake

Wed Jan 2, 2013, 04:49 PM

Jan 2013

To address "and then those freedoms are fully detailed in the Bill of Rights" - that statement is dangerously incorrect.

The Bill of Rights was never an exhaustive list of rights. It was an active defense of a few rights most likely to be deprived the people by the government.

The argument against the Bill of Rights, because it might come to be viewed as an exhaustive list of rights, was well documented. Hamilton was very much against it.

We all have the right to do anything that does not deprive another person of their rights or damage the Earth irreparably.

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