{"id":1712,"date":"2011-12-30T12:33:43","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T19:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatwouldthefoundersthink.com\/?p=1712"},"modified":"2011-12-30T12:33:43","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T19:33:43","slug":"preamble-to-the-bill-of-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.whatwouldthefoundersthink.com\/preamble-to-the-bill-of-rights","title":{"rendered":"Preamble to the Bill of Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"
This puzzle came about in the course of researching the concept of natural rights, e.g. those inherent to human beings.\u00c2\u00a0 A lot of what Madison put into the original version of the preamble echoed what was in the Declaration of independence, but those in Congress at the time, didn’t like such an explicit statement about how people were entitled to overthrow an abusive government.\u00c2\u00a0 After all, they were now the government.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, the preamble they came up with says a lot about their views on government and its role.<\/p>\n
Even though it’s relatively short, it’s worth spending some time parsing the import of these judiciously chosen words.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 For help with this, please read an excellent expository article<\/a> discovered in the course of doing the aforementioned research.<\/p>\n