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No one person was responsible for the language of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution; rather, the Bill of Rights was drafted by James Madison, based on George Mason's Virginia Declaration of Rights; and went through dozens of well-recorded and well-publicized revisions in a drafting committee of the U.S. Congress before the current language of each amendment was settled on. Please do not disseminate incorrect information through Wikipedia. bd2412 T 20:19, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Edits to Fisher Ames

I could find no reputable source attributing any such quote to Fisher Ames - it appears to have been written by someone else many years later, then retroactively attributed to Ames as a way to bolster claims that such language has something to do with the meaning of the First Amendment. By the tone and tenor of that quote, Ames may as well be attributed as having said "kids these days ought not be allowed to bring cell phones into the classroom, and should devote their time at home to their chores and studies, not Nintendo." Remember, Ames lived at a time when there was no compulsory education, there were no public schools, and no governmental body had any say in the books being used. Finally, the debate over the language of the First Amendment is so well documented as to eliminate any possibility that Fisher Ames played a role in its language, which was intended to capture the sentiment of state charters drawn up long before Ames was born. bd2412 T 17:35, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

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