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[–] jabba 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

The founding fathers argued about whether our Bill of Rights should be written. By enumerating those, were they saying the others, traditional to English common law, didn't exist? Well, I'm sure glad they did. They're eroded enough anyway without being merely ideas. I fear because England does not have a similar safeguard of those rights (1st and 2nd Amendments) and the memory of those rights as common law has faded, they might be doomed to have no rights.