[PLUG-TALK] Re: [PLUG] Sounds good to me ;)

Craighead, Scot D craighead.scot at vectorscm.com
Tue Jun 18 22:15:51 UTC 2002


>You mean, of course, the ratification of the Bill of Rights, a set of
>amendments to the US Constitution.  After all, the Constitution doesn't
>protect the rights of the people in any way, shape, or form.  It is a
>document protecting the wealthy FROM the people.

The Bill of Rights became law at the same time the constitution did.

>The Constitution of the State of Virginia was written before the
>ratification of the Bill of Rights (or, indeed, the Constitution) and
>contains a clause protecting the Freedom of Speech (Section 12).
>
>The idea of inherent rights of people that include expression are
>fundamental principles of the Enlightenment, a period and school of
>philosophy that sprouted in Europe just before the turn of the 18th
>century.  You'll find proponents of a Freedom of Speech throughout
>Enlightentment literature and most of those writers were English and
>French.  Jefferson was a latecomer to the Enlightenment, but still an
>important figure.

And again, it was not LAW anywhere before it was in America.  That is part
of our culture.




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