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Friday, June 18, 2010

James Madison and the Bill of Rights

The Bill of Rights.  The authority that men have inalienable rights is rooted in scripture and the principles set forth in this Bill were also enumerated in the federal Constitution, rated in 1791. It was Virginian, Thomas Jefferson, who wrote to his friend, James Madison, these words

"a bill of rights is what people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular and what no government should refuse, or rest on inference."

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