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In article <66012@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt0418c@prism.gatech.EDU (Shane Wm. McWhorter) writes:
>
>Laws are within the juristiction of the US Constitution, written by Thomas
>Jefferson, and signed by the State of Georgia, with a few others.
>
>Jefferson said, "The most dangerous faction is the majority." He wrote
>the Constitution for exactly the OPPOSITE reason as above, to protect the
>minority from having the majority impose thier beliefs on them.
>

I may be wrong... but I was always taught that the constitution
was based mostly on the federalist papers--- by Hamilton, Jay and Madison.

(Actually, I think Hamilton is called the Father of the Constitution)

Jefferson was a devout anti-federalist.

the Bill of Rights was included becuse the anti-federalists thought that the
constitution as written gave too much power to the federal government.
The federalists didn't see any need for the bill of rights.. that those
rights would be preserved anyway...

Soooo the only way to pacify the anti-feds was to add the Bill of Rights.

I think this is the basic idea.

(next issue: the failures of the Articles of Confederation... :-)


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