[GodGunsGuts]

==Also “verbatim” is a bit of a stretch of the truth...

John Adams wrote in his diary (June 23, 1777):

The Bill of Rights [Pennsylvania’s] is taken almost verbatim from that of Virginia [Virginia Declaration of Rights], which was made and published two or three months before that of Philadelphia [Pennsylvania’s Declaration of Rights, late August 1776] was begun, it was made by Mr. Mason....

[allmendream]

And which sections of the Virgina Declaration of Rights do you find “verbatim” in the Bill of Rights of the Constitution?

And OTHER than attacking Madison (as an unoriginal plagiarist and as opposed to a Bill of Rights), how do you feel that his view of the 1st Amendment is at odds with the current view?