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Essay Archive - Our Living Shield: The First Amendment
Our Living Shield: The First Amendment
The authors of the Constitution of the United States created a magnificent list
of liberties which were, at the time ascribed, to most people belonging to the
United States. The main author, James Madison, transported the previous ideas of
f undamental liberties from the great libertarians around the world, such as
John Lilburne, John Locke, William Walwyn and John Milton. Madison and other
previous libertarians of his time were transposed into seventeen different
rights which were to be secured to all those i....
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