Greece, Rome, and the Bill of Rights (104 page)

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Authors: Susan Ford Wiltshire

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Bellah, Robert N., and excessive individualism, 214n.2
Bentham, Jeremy, 119
Bible: and descending theme of government, 47;
Hebrew, 41;
importance of Vulgate translation of, in Middle Ages, 44-45;
Latin, 44-45;
quotations from, 42, 43
Bill of Rights: as American invention, 89;
as check on federal power, 95;
as derivative from English thought, 89;
designed to protect minority, not majority opinion, 3, 171;
natural rights interpretation of, 96-97;
ratification of, 94-95

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