<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 William Flynn Wallace </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><div> </div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">> Greatest document in history, no question - is there?</blockquote><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​The old joke is the constitution needed a good editor who would have kept the "​</div>Congress shall make no law<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​" ​part and cut out everything after that. More seriously it does seem unnecessarily verbose. A</div>rticle 1<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ says"​</div></font></div><br><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​</div><font size="4"><i>"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."</i></font><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">​I would have trimmed it down to:​</font></div><i><br></i></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4" face="verdana, sans-serif"><i>Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble<div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline">​.​</div> </i><br></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">​</font><font size="4" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Freedom of speech and assembly covers a lot of ground, you can never list all the things you can do with those freedoms and I don't think religious speech is more important than other types of speech and if you have freedom of speech you can use it </font><font size="4">to petition the Government for a redress of grievances, </font><span style="font-size:large;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">so they shouldn't have been specifically mentioned.  ​</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">"​</div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​"​</div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​</div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="clear:none;padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:15.6px"><div style="overflow:hidden;padding-bottom:20px"><span style="font-size:16px">Can you name the five rights in article 1?  (I got four)</span></div><div style="overflow:hidden;padding-bottom:20px"><span style="font-size:16px">bill w</span></div></div></div></div>
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