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To: freedomwarrior998
So in other words Madison, who wrote the 1st Amendment, cited directly Thomas Jefferson and his Virginia Law of Religious Freedom as his inspiration - and he did not at any time cite Wilson as an inspiration.

As such what Jefferson had to say on the 1st Amendment seems much more relevant than what Wilson has to say. At least according to Madison.

Oh, but Wilson was on the committee! And apparently in your mind being on the committee was more inspirational that actually writing what the author based his own writing on.

Delusional doesn't begin to cover you revisionist history trying to remove the influence of Jefferson from the writing of the Constitution.

153 posted on 03/29/2011 10:32:51 AM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: allmendream

It’s painfully obvious that you have no idea what the Committee of Detail is, nor with the process by which the Constitution was drafted and ratified.

You have a quest to worship Jefferson because you think that he supports your twisted man-centered view of the law. In doing so, you pretend that Madison wrote the Constitution alone, with the help of only Jefferson. Laughably, in the annotated Reports of Virginia that Jefferson helped compile, Adultery, the subject of this thread is clearly listed as a crime (along with fornication).

I guess if you want to invoke Jefferson as the authority, you have to take adultery laws with everything else he brings to the table.


155 posted on 03/29/2011 10:40:13 AM PDT by freedomwarrior998
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