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To: MichaelCorleone
By the way, the United States is the only country, rich or poor, who has a Constitution and Bill of Rights.

What are you talking about? Here's a link to constitutions around the world - 190 of them. Another list, straight from Wikipedia. I didn't count these though. I haven't read it, but the Mexican constitution from 1824 is supposedly a pretty close copy of the US Constitution. Unfortunately, it was replaced in the Mexican uprisings in the early 1900s.

As for the Bill of Rights, that's no special thing. It's just the first ten amendments that were accepted into the Constitution (actually proposed amendments 3-12, amendments one and two were voted down). Some of the rights elaborated in the BoR are already present in other constitutions. The BoR was even debated about being needed, since it lists citizen rights, which some framers didn't think was necessary, as the opposites of those rights wasn't empowered to the government under Art I-8. They were only included to better establish that we retained those rights, and Amendment Nine/Ten was included to fully endorse the limits on the FedGov.
48 posted on 07/19/2017 12:31:19 PM PDT by Svartalfiar
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To: Svartalfiar

What I meant was we have a unique Constitution based upon God-given natural rights and liberty. Does anyone else, for example, have the equivalent of our 2A for the purpose of resisting tyranny?

I don’t believe anyone else really does.

If there are some that even come close to what we have been blessed with, then I stand corrected.


49 posted on 07/19/2017 12:55:33 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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