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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bart9349, post: 1435531, member: 5682&quot;]I&#039;m not going to get into politics, but if the Dutch Republic had been crushed in the Thirty Years&#039; War, there would have been no English Glorious Revolution in 1688 and the associated Bill of Rights of 1689.</p><p><br /></p><p>Without this precedent, there would have be not been an enlighted American Revolution with its own Bill of Rights.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious_Revolution" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious_Revolution" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious_Revolution</a></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_Rights_1689" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_Rights_1689" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_Rights_1689</a></p><p><br /></p><p>So let&#039;s thank this Dutchman and his English wife:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]175960.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]175961.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>guy[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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