Document · United States · 1791
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The Bill of Rights
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These ten amendments bind the federal government, and they freed no one enslaved in 1791.
The review
Speech, religion, arms, searches, trials, and what is left to the states and the people. That is the list a house can get through in one sitting. These were the terms on which several states agreed to the Constitution. They bind the federal government that the Constitution made. I can tell a child that without turning it into a bedtime myth.
They did not, in 1791, free anyone who was enslaved. I would rather say that in the same breath as the list than let the famous name do the talking. A search has rules. A trial has rules. A person held as property was not unheld by those rules that year. The page is a limit on a government, not a pardon for the house that lived off bondage.
Journal
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The glance
Industry and Household are the thin ones.
Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
The eight
- 3Industry
No trade is described; the text is a set of limits on power.
- 3Household
Searches are in the list; a parent and child are not the story.
- 7Piety
Religion is listed, so a federal church cannot run the conscience.
- 5Courage
Several states made these amendments the terms of accepting the frame.
- 7Republic
They bind federal power, and in 1791 they freed no enslaved person.
- 6Temperance
The ten amendments limit what the new federal government may do.
- 7Truth
The rights are real, and so is the fact that bondage survived them.
- 5Stewardship
Left standing: limits on federal power, and slavery still in place.
Where to watch
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