Happy Birthday, Bill of Rights

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Tip o' the hat to George Mason.

Bill of Rights

The Bill of Rights is the name by which the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution are known.<1> They were introduced by James Madison to the First United States Congress in 1789 as a series of legislative articles, and came into effect as Constitutional Amendments on December 15, 1791, through the process of ratification by three-fourths of the States.

I don't know how they're celebrating at George Mason Elementary School, but at least one incoming freshman congressman is "honoring" them by urging that the First Amendment be gutted.

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Bill of Rights, Ratification

Madison based much of the Bill of Rights on George Mason's Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776), which itself had been written with Madison's input.