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On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:46:48 -0500, Wilbur Hubbard wrote:
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On Dec 8, 4:08 pm, "KLC Lewis" wrote:
"Wilbur Hubbard" wrote in message
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I am a proud conservative/libertarian who thinks the Constitution is
written in stone - not some living, breathing document meant to be
tossed
aside when convenient to do so.
Wilbur Hubbard
If the Constitution is written in stone, on what substrate do we find
the Amendments?
| Kudos!!!
Your ignorance is showing. Duh!
Amendments 1-10 are called the Bill of Rights. They were part of the
Constitution when it was ratified.
Wrong.
From Wiki:
"Madison proposed the Bill of Rights while ideological conflict between Federalists and anti-Federalists, dating from the 1787 Philadelphia Convention, threatened the overall ratification of the new national Constitution. It largely responded to the Constitution's influential opponents, including prominent Founding Fathers, who argued that the Constitution should not be ratified because it failed to protect the basic principles of human liberty. The Bill was influenced by George Mason's 1776 Virginia Declaration of Rights, the 1689 English Bill of Rights, works of the Age of Enlightenment pertaining to natural rights, and earlier English political documents such as Magna Carta (1215)."
In other words the Constitution would not have been ratified without the Bill of Rights BEING INCLUDED.
I hope this helps.