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Our Living Shield: The First Amendment
The authors of the Constitution of the United States created a magnificent list
of liberties which were, at the time ascribed, to most people belonging to the
United States. The main author, James Madison, transported the previous ideas of
f undamental liberties from the great libertarians around the world, such as
John Lilburne, John Locke, William Walwyn and John Milton. Madison and other
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this amendment. For example, in 1794, Pennsylvanian backcountry farmers
protested a whiskey tax. The protesters were not violent such as those of the
previous Shay's Rebellion. George Washington sent in a militia to crush the
rebellion denying them of their First Amendment right to "peaceably assemble."
Later, in 1836, anti sl avery newspaper editor James G. Birney had been warned
that his newspaper "The Philanthropist" was not desirable in the city of
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