The Bill of Rights has helped create what is arguably the freest enduring society in history. It wasn’t always that way. The original Constitution didn’t have a Bill of Rights. Once the Bill of Rights was added, it didn’t apply for a century to state governments. As recently as 90 years ago, no one had won a First Amendment free speech case against the … [Read more...] about Bill of Rights makes us freest nation
Fourteenth Amendment
Is there a right to privacy in the Constitution?
The most important words in the 14th Amendment of 1868 – maybe in the entire Constitution – say no state shall “deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law, nor deny any person…the equal protection of the laws.” These promises of liberty, due process and equality eventually remade the country, remade the Constitution and by the 1960s, … [Read more...] about Is there a right to privacy in the Constitution?