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Leviticus 25:10 - Inscription on the Liberty Bell
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Bill Of Rights

1. Freedom of Speech, Press, Religion and Assembly.
2. Right to Keep and Bear Arms
3. Freedom from having to quarter soldiers
4. Right to security in your home
5. Protection in criminal cases
6. Guarantee of a speedy and public trial by a jury
7. A Jury has THE final say in lawsuits
8. Protection from cruel and unusual punishment
9. Constitutional government empowerment, does not take away the peoples Rights
10. The Federal government has only limited powers as specified in the Constitution.

QUOTATIONS

IS YOUR FREEDOM IN DANGER?

(The Destruction of the Bill of Rights)
By Jarret Wollstein
Excerpt from the above pamphlet

What defines the character of America and makes this country a good place to live? For over 200 years, our prosperity and liberty were the envy of much of the world. But our prosperity is inseparable from our liberty. Take away our freedom of speech, religion and enterprise, and America would be neither free nor prosperous.

Unique among nations of the modern world, the United States was literally conceived in liberty. The guiding philosophy of Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, George Mason and our other Founding Fathers was the inalienable rights of the individual.
As demonstrations of the power of unlimited government:

• destructive taxation,
• forcible invasions of homes by government agents,
• interference with free trade,
• government spying on citizens,
• corruption and debasement of the legal system,
• imprisonment and murder of dissenters, and
• government destruction of churches.

To avoid such evils in this country,
the Constitution and Bill of Rights (the first ten Amendments) were created,
as strict limitations on the power of government.

The Bill of Rights protects

• our freedom of
  • speech,
  • press,
  • religion, and
  • assembly.
• It guarantees our right to keep and bear arms.
• It prohibits unreasonable search and seizure.
• It guarantees due process
  • in a court of law,
  • a speedy hearing, and
  • trial by jury.
• It prohibits
  • excessive bail,
  • fines and
  • punishment.
• And most important,
  the Bill of Rights guarantees that
  rights not explicitly granted to the government,
  are reserved to us as individuals.

Our Founding Fathers believed that to avoid the evils of corrupt and tyrannical government, the power of government should be limited to protecting citizens from domestic and foreign aggressors. Government was regarded as a moral policeman, stopping force and fraud whenever possible, and otherwise leaving citizens alone to live their lives in peace. Today, 200 years after its passage, the Bill of Rights remains the supreme law of the land, and neither Congress, nor the Supreme Court, nor the President have the moral or legal right to ignore it.

Sadly, government now has strayed very far from the original vision of limited powers. Today there is no aspect of our lives -- public or private -- that government regards as exempt from its jurisdiction and control.
Government now

• seizes over half our incomes in taxes;
• regulates every aspect of trade and commerce;
• censors
  • books,
  • movies and
  • art;
• scrutinizes our business records and bank accounts;
• confiscates our guns;
• taps our telephones and reads our mail;
• dictates wages and working conditions;
• regulates our sex lives; and
• imposes fines and imprisonment without due process of law.

The vision of government
as the servant of the people,
rather than their master,
has been lost.

This pamphlet is produced as a public service by the International Society for Individual Liberty. If you would like to receive free literature about ISIL's activities around the world, and receive a sample copy of the FREEDOM NETWORK NEWS newsletter and book catalog, please write:

INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY
1800 Market Street, San Francisco, California 94102 USA
Tel: (415) 864-0952 Fax: (415) 864-7506

WizNote: The bill of rights talk about god-given rights of all people.
If you live in a country other than the United States, you too have these god-given rights.

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