The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One’s right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, […]
Bill of Rights Quotes
It seems as if the Department (of Justice) sees the value of the Bill of Rights as no more than obstacles to be overcome.
Let no man think that we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves. When zealous agents of the government arrest suspected ‘radicals’ without warrant, hold them without prompt trial, deny them access to counsel and admission of bail… we have shorn the Bill of Rights of its sanctity as a shield […]
It has been objected also against a bill of rights, that, by enumerating particular exceptions to the grant of power, it would disparage those rights which were not placed in that enumeration, and it might follow by implication, that those rights which were not singled out, were intended to be assigned into the hands of […]
