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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: goldworldnet who wrote (73401)8/20/2009 8:21:30 AM
From: Brumar892 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 90947
 
There's another fellow who wasn't "nice". All that intemperate rhetoric:

”Again, Henry was not afraid of being labeled a traitor. “If this be treason,” he thundered, “make the most of it!”

By the 1770s,Henry had emerged as one of the most radical leaders of the opposition to British tyranny. In 1774, he represented Virginia at the First Continental Congress. The following year, Henry attended the second Virginia Convention. At St. John’s Church in Richmond, he urgently advised his fellow Virginians to take arms against the British. “Gentlemen may cry ‘Peace! Peace!’ but there is no peace,” Henry intoned. “The war is actually begun!”He closed his speech with the now legendary words: “I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.”

Thank you, Patrick Henry:

Henry wondered aloud why the Constitution did not include a bill of rights. “Is it because it will consume too much paper?” he asked sarcastically.Henry believed that the absence of a bill of rights was part of the attempt by the few to amass power. The arguments of Henry and other Anti-Federalists compelled Madison, the leader of the Virginia Federalists (supporters of adoption of the Constitution), to promise the addition of a bill of rights to the Constitution once the document was approved.
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