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Strict Construction
What my other posts get to is that a true strict constructionist would severely limit rights people take for granted today, like much of what we view as freedom of the press. Another example is freedom of religion. There was a smattering of anti-Catholic leglislation still on the books in the early states, and then a torrent of anti-Catholic legislation was adopted as Irish immigration picked up at the time of the famines. It is not clear what the constitutional standards really would be with respect to freedom of religion until relatively late in the 19th century.
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