Great Statement by a Former Supreme Court Justice

[njpilot 671]

Unfortunately, everyone including our justices don't give a wit about our Constitution or the Bill of Rights.

 

Justice Robert H. Jackson (1892-1954): "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, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections."

[tmpnj 0]

Hope you dont mind but, I'm copying this and sending it to a few friends of the liberal leaning ideology.....

[raz-0 1,259]

Sounds like a smart guy, DC must have made him want to kill people. 

[Jeff 13]

I assume he's been rolling over in his grave for quite some time now.

[Handyman 5,682]

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[Newtonian 453]

My dear late friends, the "framers" (or "patriots" as my wife used to call them, before the term became common, and they really did run a framing shop), used to say that the difference between a democracy and a republic was that in the latter your rights are not subject to vote. Whereas a democracy was "two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner."

[siderman 1,137]

part 2 to that quip is " and liberty is a well armed lamb contesting that vote" or something like that