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Re: Vitriolic garbage
Cheryl Singhal (csinghal@CAPACCESS.ORG)
Wed, 28 Apr 1999 16:35:06 -0400
On Wed, 28 Apr 1999 GMarmet@AOL.COM wrote:
> The radical thing about the Bill of Rights, as compared to the Magna Carta,
> is that the Bill of Rights applied to all Americans; the Magna Carta applied
It did not at the time. It applied ONLY to Free Landowners. It did not
apply to indentured servants, slaves, the AmerInds, or even the white
sharecropper.
> only to the English barons, and was in fact a contract wrenched from one
> powerful man by equally powerful barons. The Bill of Rights applies to all,
> powerful and weak.
Does now, yes.
Cheryl
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