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hack89

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4. The founders simply copied most of the English Bill of Rights from 1689

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Original post)

Fri May 27, 2022, 08:25 AM

May 2022

When they said that the king was trampling their rights as Englishmen, did you ever consider exactly what those rights were? Turns out they had a Bill of Rights - a law that laid out basic civil rights for all Englishmen and was a critical step in the development of parliamentary rule.

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