For one, our British cousins came up with one in 1689, which contains most of the elements found in the US Bill of Rights, with a few exceptions, mostly having to deal with the King. (and apparently didn't apply to the colonies)
Oddly, only Protestants have the right to keep and bear firearms, 'as the law allows.' Of course, this was at the tail end of vicious Catholic/Protestant infighting, so I suppose that's the reason.
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"Ed Gruberman, you fail to grasp Ty Kwan Leap. Approach me, that you might see." -- The Master
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"My dear, I used to think that I was serving humanity... and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discovered that humanity does not want to be served; on the contrary it resents any attempt to serve it. So now I do what pleases Jubal Harshaw." ---Jubal Harshaw, Stranger In A Strange Land
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"It's like the Star of David or something. But without the whole Judaism thing."
-Frank Gerratana, 17-Aug-2000
What surprised me was that the old English Bill of Rights took the individual right to bear arms seriously enough to put it down in writing, but now...
Still, it was a good history lesson. I only learned about the thing this morning (new kid's book series called "A History of US", of which the last volume details the text of certain important historical documents, letters, speeches, etc. That have had an impact on the United States, from the Magna Carta to Reagan's speech at the University of Moscow.
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"Ed Gruberman, you fail to grasp Ty Kwan Leap. Approach me, that you might see." -- The Master
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"My dear, I used to think that I was serving humanity... and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discovered that humanity does not want to be served; on the contrary it resents any attempt to serve it. So now I do what pleases Jubal Harshaw." ---Jubal Harshaw, Stranger In A Strange Land
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"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."
- George Bernard Shaw