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Our Fickle Constitution: A Guide to the Preamble of That Ever-Changing Quaint and Curious Charter
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If you dig into the actual text, scrutinizing the words, their grammatical juxtaposition, their etymology, and historical context, you might think the document is little more than a framework for governance designed to safeguard individual
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“The rights of children as individuals begin while yet the remain the fetus... I hold abortion to be just as much murder as the killing of a person after birth is murder.”
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“The instinct of worship is still so strong upon us that, having nearly worn out our capacity for treating kings and such kind of persons as sacred, we are ready to invest a majority of our own selves with the same kind of reverence.”
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“Liberty means refusing to allow some men to use the state to compel other men to serve their interests or opinion.”
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“Justice requires that you should not place the burdens of one man on the shoulders of another man, even though he is better able to bear them. In plainer words, that you should not make one set of men pay for what is used by another set of men.”
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“Set men up to rule their fellow-men, to treat them as mere soulless material with which they may deal as they please, and the consequence is that you sweep away every moral landmark and turn this world into a place of selfish striving, hopeless confusion, trickery and violence, a mere scrambling ground for the strongest or the most cunning or the most numerous.”
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