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Old 09-16-2016, 04:08 AM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by Far-L View Post
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I doubt very much if the Founding Fathers create the First Amendment to mean Freedom of Speech. They would have been shocked to the core now it's been given to Native Americans, African Americans and Hispanics.

They wrote it to apply to the White Middle Class. And themselves. Because they then went on to write the Second Amendment so they had enough guns to shoot anyone who said the wrong thing.

Think on it with the mindset and times of the writers.
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