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Originally Posted by Joe Obenberger
Helter Skelter - They talked about it, a little bit anyway.
We did it. And we were the first in the world to do so.
Like it or not.
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It might be a question of months and so not have directly influenced the adoption of the first amendment, and I know it was in the chaos of post revolutionary France, but wasn't Rousseau's Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man pretty much a precursor to the Bill of Rights, including the First Amendment?
I like to think these enlightened policies and pre- or post- constitutional legal and philosophical bases all came from the same vein of thinkers who conferred in these great discussions, privately and publicly, on an inter-continental level, so I might have to go back a bit to my readings, but from what I understand the two documents essentially grew from the same richly fertilized soil....
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