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  • 12 The Constitution is, in every rational sense and to every useful purpose, A BILL OF RIGHTS.   (source)
  • 10 A bill of rights is not only unnecessary in the proposed Constitution, but would be dangerous.   (source)
  • The other States have no bill of rights and their constitutions are silent.   (source)
  • Is a bill of rights essential to liberty?   (source)
  • Writing from Paris a few days later, before receiving Adams's letter, Jefferson said nothing about a bill of rights, only that there were "things" in the Constitution that "stagger all my dispositions to subscribe" to it.   (source)
  • While Jefferson would have much to say about the Constitution and the need for a bill of rights in subsequent private correspondence with Madison, he made no public statement for the time being, whereas Adams sent off a strong endorsement to John Jay that was to be widely quoted at home.   (source)
  • A fifth believe that a bill of rights would be superfluous, but the Constitution has the fatal power of regulating the times and places of election.   (source)
  • A fourth says a bill of rights is necessary but it should not declare the personal rights of individuals, but the rights reserved to the States.   (source)
  • 2 The most important of the remaining objections is that the new Constitution contains no bill of rights.   (source)
  • Should a bill of rights define certain immunities and modes of proceeding in personal and private concerns?   (source)
  • Does a bill of rights list the political privileges of the citizens in the structure and administration of the government?   (source)
  • The Articles has no bill of rights.   (source)
  • Therefore, referring to what is meant by a bill of rights, it is absurd to say that it is not in the proposed Constitution.   (source)
  • Yet people who oppose the new Constitution, people in New York who profess an unlimited admiration for New York's constitution, are demanding a bill of rights.   (source)
  • Among the imagined defects are:
    no term limits for the Executive,
    no executive council,
    no formal bill of rights, and
    no provision for the liberty of the press.
    New York's constitution doesn't have these provisions.   (source)
  • The Confederation has no bill of rights.   (source)
  • Is a bill of rights essential to liberty?   (source)
  • And the proposed Constitution, if adopted, will be the bill of rights of the Union.   (source)
  • Adverting therefore to the substantial meaning of a bill of rights, it is absurd to allege that it is not to be found in the work of the convention.   (source)
  • A third does not object to the government over individuals, or to the extent proposed, but to the want of a bill of rights.   (source)
  • The most considerable of the remaining objections is that the plan of the convention contains no bill of rights.   (source)
  • Is another object of a bill of rights to define certain immunities and modes of proceeding, which are relative to personal and private concerns?   (source)
  • The several bills of rights in Great Britain form its Constitution, and conversely the constitution of each State is its bill of rights.   (source)
  • And yet the opposers of the new system, in this State, who profess an unlimited admiration for its constitution, are among the most intemperate partisans of a bill of rights.   (source)
  • Is it one object of a bill of rights to declare and specify the political privileges of the citizens in the structure and administration of the government?   (source)
  • Among the pretended defects are the re-eligibility of the Executive, the want of a council, the omission of a formal bill of rights, the omission of a provision respecting the liberty of the press.   (source)
  • The truth is, after all the declamations we have heard, that the Constitution is itself, in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, A BILL OF RIGHTS.   (source)
  • A fifth is of opinion that a bill of rights of any sort would be superfluous and misplaced, and that the plan would be unexceptionable but for the fatal power of regulating the times and places of election.   (source)
  • A fourth concurs in the absolute necessity of a bill of rights, but contends that it ought to be declaratory, not of the personal rights of individuals, but of the rights reserved to the States in their political capacity.   (source)
  • To justify their zeal in this matter, they allege two things: one is that, though the constitution of New York has no bill of rights prefixed to it, yet it contains, in the body of it, various provisions in favor of particular privileges and rights, which, in substance amount to the same thing; the other is, that the Constitution adopts, in their full extent, the common and statute law of Great Britain, by which many other rights, not expressed in it, are equally secured.   (source)
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  • Ask him to describe a rose, to quote one passage from the Constitution or the Bill of Rights.†   (source)
  • It was a required course—easy even by the desultory standards of our school — but trying to get Boris to understand about the Bill of Rights, and the enumerated versus implied powers of the U.S. Congress, reminded me of the time I'd tried to explain to Mrs. Barbour what an Internet server was.†   (source)
  • But spending on government services did not increase at a corresponding rate — because Colorado voters enacted a Taxpayers Bill of Rights in 1992 that placed strict limits on new government spending.†   (source)
  • I was armed with informationfrom Sarah Byrnes's report on the Bill of Rights that I would use if necessary.†   (source)
  • When her sister called up indignant and spouting about the Bill of Rights, had Diana thought that her nephew was going to grow up to become a psychopath?†   (source)
  • The Magna Carta, the Petition of Rights and the Bill of Rights, are documents which are held in veneration by democrats throughout the world.†   (source)
  • You can't find the answer in the Bible or the Bill of Rights.†   (source)
  • The Americans have a Bill of Rights, right?†   (source)
  • It's also an important part of our common citizenship; the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the judicial precedents, all these are in English.†   (source)
  • I am a conservative in that I'm out to conserve the blue of the sky, the freshness of the air of which we have less and less, the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights, and whatever semblance of sanity we may have left.†   (source)
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  • The Bill of Rights limited his authority.†   (source)
  • For a starter let's adopt the Virginia Bill of Rights as article one.†   (source)
  • And by the sacred Bill of Rights, you'll have the protection from the murderer that any honest law-abiding citizen deserves.†   (source)
  • Sarah Byrnes's report on the Bill of Rights said it was a basic ….†   (source)
  • Number 84: Bill of Rights; Capital; Debts due Union; Expenses†   (source)
  • Parliament then made it the "Bill of Rights."†   (source)
  • He wasn't the kind of dad who showed her how to ride a bike or to skip stones-instead, he taught her the Latin words for things like faucet and octopus and porcupine; he explained to her the Bill of Rights.†   (source)
  • Its Bill of Rights says that standing armies are dangerous to liberty and should not be kept up in peacetime.†   (source)
  • Constitution as Bill of Rights   (source)
  • Bill of Rights   (source)
  • The Magna Carta, the Petition of Rights, and the Bill of Rights are documents which are held in veneration by democrats throughout the world.†   (source)
  • How about a bill of rights?†   (source)
  • But we must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.†   (source)
  • But we must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.†   (source)
  • They made him out to be the Royal arms, the Union-Jack, Magna Charta, John Bull, Habeas Corpus, the Bill of Rights, An Englishman's house is his castle, Church and State, and God save the Queen, all put together.†   (source)
  • The Preamble to The Bill of Rights Congress of the United States begun and held at the City of New-York, on Wednesday the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine.†   (source)
  • The Bill of Rights of that State declares that standing armies are dangerous to liberty, and ought not to be kept up in time of peace.†   (source)
  • Such, also, was the Declaration of Right presented by the Lords and Commons to the Prince of Orange in 1688, and afterwards thrown into the form of an act of parliament called the Bill of Rights.†   (source)
  • At the revolution, to abolish the exercise of so dangerous an authority, it became an article of the Bill of Rights then framed, that "the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, UNLESS WITH THE CONSENT OF PARLIAMENT, was against law."†   (source)
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