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Bill of Rights From Kings to Consumers

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In this episode, we explore bill of rights from kings to consumers. Usually, when we talk about foundational legal concepts, there's this expectation of, like, total rigidity. Oh, yeah. We want them to be permanent. Right. We kind of imagine pouring concrete. You lay the foundation of a nation, the concrete sets, and you just point to it and say, you know, there it is. Those are the rules forever. Yeah. You sign the massive historical document. The ink dries. and it's locked away in some climate -controlled vault, right? Exactly. In the National Archives somewhere. I mean, that is entirely by design. We are wired to want our core rights to be visible and strictly categorized, anchored in stone, basically. Because ambiguity is scary. Ambiguity in human rights is terrifying. So yeah, we look for permanence. But then if you actually track how the langu ... 
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