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Heidi Anderson

Hist 17A
March 27th 2019

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Perfect example of religious freedom, your civil rights would not be taken away due to your personal beliefs.

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Protection From Cruel and Unusual Punish

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Protection From Cruel and Unusual Punish

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Adding another since it was something quite normalized in the world

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Protection From Cruel and Unusual Punishment

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Protection From Cruel and Unusual Punishment

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The right to privacy, and protection from unlawful searches or seizure of property

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The right to own and operate a firearm for personal protection, and in the event of the people being forced to overthrow the government if it becomes tyrannical

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A government erected by the people, to ensure justice, tranquility, happiness, and protection.

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Pushing for Independence Was Their Moral Duty

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Pushing for Independence Was Their Moral Duty

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Happiness of The People, Makes a Strong Government

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Happiness of The People, Makes a Strong Government

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Paine warned the colonists of the war that plagued countries under monarchy's.

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Paine made a valid argument that people should not have to beg for the rights in which they were given at birth.

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The people had the opportunity to make a new society for themselves

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The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy... These measures never fail to create great and violent jealousies and animosities between the people favored and the people oppressed; whence a total separation of affections, interests, political obligations, and all manner of connections, by which the whole state is weakened.

Benjamin Franklin,

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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Stephens Smith, November 13, 1787

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The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

Thomas Jefferson, letter to The Republican Citizens of Washington County, Maryland, March 31, 1809

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Natural rights are the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established.

Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Monroe, 1791

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An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens....There has never been a moment of my life in which I should have relinquished for it the enjoyments of my family, my farm, my friends & books.

Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Melish, January 13, 1813