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To: Dead Corpse

The Federalist was written before the Constitution was ratified, before the 1st Congress met, before the BOR was written or ratified. It contains no discussion on the BOR, nor could it have.


43 posted on 10/31/2005 10:42:48 AM PST by phelanw
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To: phelanw
Now that explains your level of ignorance.

Click here to read up on the Federalist view of Bills of Rights.

Click here for the Anti-Federalist view.

46 posted on 10/31/2005 10:46:47 AM PST by Dead Corpse (Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be. -El Neil)
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To: phelanw
It contains no discussion on the BOR, nor could it have.

I'm sorry, but that is incorrect!

I can't quote the number, but it is one of the last federalists papers. In it, Hamilton went to great lengths explaining the absurdity of a BOR - specifically using the freedom of the press as an example.

His reasoning was, essentially, why include a specific prohibition against something that the congress was not given the power to regulate in the first place.

54 posted on 10/31/2005 11:08:47 AM PST by An.American.Expatriate (Here's my strategy on the War against Terrorism: We win, they lose. - with apologies to R.R.)
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