"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." This quote has been attributed to Wendell Phillips, Thomas Jefferson, and Patrick Henry[1]. Nobody is sure exactly who said it, but everyone can agree that any one of these great men could have said it, and surely agreed with it. The founders of America didn't create the Constitution, and then add the Bill of Rights because they were bored. They had just declared independence from an oppressive monarchy and knew what it was like to live at the whim of someone else. They didn't hear stories of the oppressed in far away countries, they lived those...
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