The whole of the Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the right of the
people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some
rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no
majority has a right to deprive them of.
-- Albert Gallatin, Oct 7 1789
people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some
rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no
majority has a right to deprive them of.
-- Albert Gallatin, Oct 7 1789
Related:
- Most people seem to think that trampling individual rights is OK if it is
"for the good of society as a whole." However,
society is but a large number of individuals, and how... - To disarm the people - that was the best and most effective way
to enslave them .
George Mason ( Framer of the Declaration of Rights... - In recent years it has been suggested that the Second Amendment
protects the "collective" right of states to maintain militias,
while it does not protect the right of "the people"... - We hold these truths to be self-evident,--that all men are created
equal;
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain... - Article the Third:
Where a crime of the kidneys has been committed,
the accused should enjoy the right to a speedy diaper... - The Bill of Rights is a literal and absolute document.
The First Amendment doesn't say you have a right to... - The abortion rights and gun control debates are twin aspects of a deeper
question -
does an individual ever have the right to make decisions... - You who've lost the concept of a right, you who swing in impotent
evasiveness between the claim that rights are a gift of God,
a supernatural gift to be taken on faith, or the claim... - The idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights
can have but one meaning:
that the interests and rights of some individuals take...
From the same category:
- The Bible is not my book, and Christianity is not my religion.
I could never give assent to the long, complicated... - If I must write the truth, I am disposed to avoid every assembly of
bishops;
for of no synod have I seen a profitable end, but rather... - The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
R. Buckminster... - Vegetables are not food; vegetables are what food eats.
Fruit are vegetables that fool you by tasting good... - Everything you know is wrong. But some of it is a useful first approximation.
Eric S....
