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To: Bubba Ho-Tep
You need to go back and study some history.

The Founders who were for the BOR wanted certain unalienable rights affirmed, they didn't feel the Constitution granted enough protection......John Jay who wrote the Constitution with Madison wouldn't sign without it witout them...

1,043 posted on 10/18/2010 5:28:59 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Moderates manipulate, extremists use violence, but the goal is the same.)
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To: Las Vegas Ron
Yes, I know that. And once they were included, they became as much a part of the Constitution as any other part.

John Jay who wrote the Constitution with Madison wouldn't sign without it witout them...

I think it's you who needs to study some history. John Jay wasn't even AT the Constitutional Convention. He was among the Federalists, though, corresponding with Madison and Hamilton and writing parts of the Federalist Papers. It was the Anti-Federalists like Patrick Henry who insisted on including the Bill of Rights before they'd ratify.

1,047 posted on 10/18/2010 5:41:49 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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