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To: Jacquerie
You have to take into accounts of the populace too.

Not when today's kids were taught, their "rights" came from the government (the president fighting for their rights to equality or some such rot), and "I Am Willing to Give Up Some of My Constitutional Rights…to Be Safer".

The Constitution including the BOR should not have been 'hard to understand'. But not when it has been twisted to the present day interpretation.

7 posted on 04/13/2013 4:59:03 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: Sir Napsalot
You are in good company. Anti-Federalist Richard Henry Lee of VA made the same point. To paraphrase:

Why do some men disregard the rights given to them by God? It is the lack of education, not impressed on young minds. With Magna Charta, it was read publicly twice a year in all towns so that the people might not forget their rights and become gradually prepared for arbitrary government. No people remained free because their ancestors enumerated anything on paper, but rather because their rights were constantly kept in view, in addresses, in BOR, newspapers. It is on these principles our freedom must always depend.

11 posted on 04/13/2013 5:14:37 PM PDT by Jacquerie (How few were left who had seen the republic! - Tacitus, The Annals)
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To: Sir Napsalot

The Founders couldn’t have forseen a Protestant population so scared of the Papists that they’d initiate a Prussian/Indian school system of indoctrination and control.

I don’t think it was ever on their radar. It’s without precedent in history outside of Asia or the ME.


33 posted on 04/13/2013 7:29:40 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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