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In the post, Magglioca says that the bill of rights was not what people of the time thought a bill of rights looked like. Well I find it is not accurate to say that since many ideas were lifted from the English Bill of Rights 1689. No standing armies in peacetime, freedom of speech of parliament, peasants bearing arms, no cruel unusual punishment, no excessive bails, no taxes without parliament. I hope that I am missing something in translation, because it is unsettling that he would overlook this. The Virginian Bill of Rights mentioned in the story took from this as well. In other words, it set a standard.