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