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2008 July 11
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"The only protection of every citizen from such deprivation of rights
is a strict adherence to the Bill of Rights by everyone for everyone.
This should be self-evident but the danger of erosion of rights
stems largely from the fact that so many citizens of the majority,
who have never been deprived of any of these rights, find it difficult
to understand what the deprivation of them means in the lives of others." |
"They: The makers of the Constitution: conferred,
as against the government, the right to be let alone --
the most comprehensive of rights and
the right most valued by civilized men." |
"Be assured that if this new provision [the 14th Amendment] be engrafted in the Constitution, it will, in time, change the entire structure and texture of our government, and sweep away all the guarantees of safety devised and provided by our patriotic Sires of the Revolution." |
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2008 July 10
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"But the indissoluble link of union between the people of the several States of this confederated nation is, after all, not in the RIGHT, but in the HEART. If the day should ever come (may Heaven avert it!) when the affections of the people of these States shall be alienated from each other, when the fraternal spirit shall give way to cold indifference, or collision of interests shall fester into hatred, the bonds of political association - will not long hold together parties no longer attracted by the magnetism of conciliated interests and kindly sympathies; and far better will it be for the people of the disunited States to part in friendship with each other than to be held together by constraint. Then will be the time for reverting to the precedents which occurred at the formation and adoption of the Constitution, to form again a more perfect Union, by dissolving that which could no longer bind, and to leave the separated parts to be reunited by the law of political gravitation to the center." |
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2008 July 09
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"The States acceded to the Union." |
"Each state enjoys sovereign power." |
"The thirteen States are thirteen Sovereignties." |
"The Thirteen States are Thirteen Sovereign bodies." |
"The Government made by a number of Sovereign States." |
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2008 July 08
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"If the representatives of the people betray their constituents,
there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original
right of self-defense..." |
"The attributes of sovereignty are now enjoyed by every state in the Union." |
"Let us recollect that peace or war
will not always be left to our option;
that however moderate or unambitious we may be,
we cannot count upon the moderation, or
hope to extinguish the ambition of others. ...
The best we can hope for concerning the people
at large is that they be properly armed." |
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2008 July 07
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"Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what they may." |
"The States are nations." |
"If the States were not left to leave the Union
when their rights were interfered with,
the government would have been National,
but the Convention refused to baptize it by that name." |
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