#bill of rights

The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of... the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time. ↗

— William Hague

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Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee. ↗

— F. Lee Bailey

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The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting. ↗

— William J. Brennan, Jr.

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I am in favor, heartily in favor, of our Constitution and Bill of Rights and I owe my allegiance to my country at all times. ↗

— Julius Rosenberg

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A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Some politicians are aware of the Bill of Rights. It seems that the opposition party is far more likely to invoke it, to wave it in the air, this is what we saw from a lot of republicans during the Clinton Administration, and we are seeing the same from Democrats under Bush. ↗

— James Bovard

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Neither James Madison, for whom this lecture is named, nor any of the other Framers of the Constitution, were oblivious, careless, or otherwise unaware of the words they chose for the document and its Bill of Rights. ↗

— Diane Wood

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We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities. ↗

— Bill Maher

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Some of the folks on both sides might be sincere, but it does seem as if it is only the opposition that cares about the Bill of Rights most of the time. ↗

— James Bovard

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