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Examples Of Amendments And Aphorisms

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Gabriella Protash
Mrs. Dryden
Honors American Lit & Comp
April 23, 2023

Amendments & Aphorisms Is it possible to compare two random texts to one another by using amendments and aphorisms? Well, the answer is yes. You can do so by looking for the key theme even by one word. This can be shown by comparing aphorisms found in ” Poor Richard’s Almanack” to amendments from “The United States Constitution: The Bill of Rights”. What are some examples of this from these texts? One of the examples comes from Amendment #2 found in “The United States Constitution: The Bill of Rights”, which states the following, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” The second half comes from verse 11 of “Poor Richard’s Almanack”, which states, “God helps them that help themselves”. These both show that you can help yourself by means of taking the first step. You cannot …show more content…

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