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Originally Posted by Wolfgang Bohringer

Elbridge Gerry at the constitutional convention asked:



In a letter to Francis Hopkinson (March 13, 1789), Thomas Jefferson wrote that:



To James Madison, on December 20, 1787, Jefferson wrote that a federal Bill of Rights must:



Again to Madison, on July 31, 1788, Jefferson wrote that:



Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776):



Nearly every state bill of rights includes the right of individuals to be free from standing armies.