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1791

First Amendment ratified

The First Amendment is ratified on December 15, 1791. Historian Denise Spellberg argues that Jefferson, Madison, and Washington had earlier defended the civil rights of future Muslim citizens.

Source

Denise A. Spellberg, Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an (Knopf, 2013), University of Texas at Austin

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