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1 posted on 04/01/2013 10:17:03 AM PDT by guyshomenet
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To: guyshomenet
The Sikhs have two things right ~ guns, and music during religious services.

Can't say anything about the rest of it, but I always knew the First, Second and Third Amendments are tightly linked.

For those who aren't aware of the practice the King of France, Louis XIV, sought to overthrow the rules embedded in the Edict of Nantes (regarding religious toleration) and thought the way to do that was to force the Huguenots (French Protestants) to attend the same church services he did.

He issued the Draggonettes Orders which allowed the use of the military to occupy the homes of Huguenots. There they'd eat all the food, use all the furniture, defile and rape the women, and do whatever they wished until the Huguenot gave in and went to Louis' preferred church.

In the end several hundred thousand French and Breton Huguenots fled from Louis XIV for other countries ~ many of them to America.

There their grandchildren were privileged to write many of the elements of the Bill of Rights ~ to wit, free speech, free assembly, free press, free religion, free thought, no restrictions on guns, no soldiers in the house making you go to the king's church.

To a degree, looking at the history of all the various elements named in the first three Amendments, they may, in fact, be viewed as simply different ways of restating each of the others.

2 posted on 04/01/2013 10:52:11 AM PDT by muawiyah
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