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the people in the colonies, and I'm certain that it was
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the familiarity that these people had, the colonies had,
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the founding fathers, which prompted them to include this
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in the Bill of Rights.
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So, it may be, in this sense -- I'm not a
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lawyer and I'm not familiar with that — but I am familial
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with the history of the dealings of the people. both in
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Britain and in America with this kind of thing as being
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included... It's just like the Magna Carta. Most of that
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was just aspirations. They were not things that could
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be enforced, b'ut we look -back on it today still as
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aspirations that led to things which became very definite
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in Congress, "in our Bill of Rights and in our Constitu-
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tion. If you want to look at it historically and not
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legally.
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MRS. FREEDLANDER: I'd like to ask you one
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more question, if I may. You referred particularly to
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Article 6 that talks about the regulative executive
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powers of the government and towards the end of that
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article the people may, and of right ought, to reform the
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old, or establish a new 'government; the doctrine of non-
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