06-29-2020, 11:42 PM
(06-29-2020, 11:05 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Seems the framers knew what they were doing when the included peaceably to a citizen's Right to assemble:
No even bringing up the ridiculous notion that I should be able to peaceably assemble in your yard. Many of the public assemblies we've seen lately violate the 1st.
I've made my extreme distaste for historical relativism known on several occasions. That said I'll completely agree that owning slaves was an abhorrent thing to do. Even so, the men who wrote our Constitution and the Bill of Rights deserve every ounce of praise they've ever gotten. I know it's modeled off of ancient Grecian concepts, but those documents are truly wonders.
