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Many of the founding fathers, including Th … Many of the founding fathers, including Thomas Jefferson, argued for the addition of a specific Bill “providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms for freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies, restriction against monopolies, the eternal and unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land.” Most of that – which Jefferson called for in a letter he wrote to Madison after the Constitutional Convention – indeed ended up in the Bill of Rights.n – indeed ended up in the Bill of Rights. +
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