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"The Constitution, thus, was meant to serve as a counterweight to the formation of a despotic government, just as the bill of rights was meant to provide a barrier against government exercise of power in ways that would transgress the peoples' liberties. Neither the Constitution nor the bill of rights today serves as a reliably effective counter either to despotic government or to violation of the peoples' liberties." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.)

"The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, also called the GI bill of rights, immediately introduced the subsidization of home purchase for seventeen million people. This major government subsidy did not go away, and it helped lead to permanently higher home prices. But it did so in the context of the solidarity of the American people, and it never ignited a speculative atmosphere. President Franklin Roosevelt said that the GI bill of rights gave "emphatic notice to the men and women of our Armed Forces that the American people do not intend to let them down." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Neither the Constitution nor the bill of rights today serves as a reliably effective counter either to despotic government or to violation of the peoples' liberties. One would think the federal courts a repository of power that, under the doctrine of federal judicial review, could stop violation of the non-delegation and separation of powers doctrines that the Constitution begets. Since 1984 and the Supreme Court's decision in Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.,21 however, the federal courts have largely abandoned that role." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.)

"President Franklin Roosevelt said that the GI bill of rights gave "emphatic notice to the men and women of our Armed Forces that the American people do not intend to let them down."13 The people who bought at the high prices right after the war were those who felt that they could not wait to get settled in their new homes, not people who were speculating that prices would go up even higher. Other people simply found a temporary place to live and waited for the expected decline in home prices (which never came) or for their savings to increase to the point that they could afford housing." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"They got on TV with their face, wrote articles for local papers and put together a Safe Cosmetics bill of rights, which they presented to the Marin County Board of Supervisors. "Each girl had her own strength and worked on what she felt the most strongly about," according to Judi Shils. The girls worked with an ad agency and design firm to create marketing materials and did their own research and media outreach. "The experiences they're having and the life skills they're learning, these girls are going to go on in their lives and do things that are unbelievable," Judi said. " - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.)

"When the crown was offered to William and Mary, they agreed to a bill of rights that severely limited the king or queen's power. The British bill of rights is often regarded as a forerunner to the United States bill of rights. Goebbels, Joseph (yoh-zuhf geu-buhls, geu-buhlz) A German political leader of the twentieth century. Goebbels was propaganda minister of the Nazi government and a close confidant of the leader, Adolf Hitler. Goebbels's policy was based on the notion that a lie, repeated often and forcibly, gains the legitimacy of truth." - E. D. Hirsch, Joseph F. Kett, James Trefil, The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Get the book.)

"Once the Constitution was ratified in 1788 it superseded the bill of rights and the Declaration of Independence, which had demanded much more radical civil and economic rights for the revolutionary fighters and the general white male population. With the Constitution in place, control by the aristocracy was firmly established. The Whiskey Rebellion followed the ratification of the Constitution and was the first real test after its passage of the power of the aristocratic Federalists. This revolt resulted from an onerous and discriminatory federal tax on grain used for whiskey." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.)

"Kennedy, in a message to Congress, proposed a Consumer bill of rights. These included a right to safety, a right to be informed, a right to choose, and a right to be heard. The past 25 years has seen legislation written that erodes these rights, allowing pharmaceutical corporations to figuratively rape and kill patients for profit. The FDA is not the only government enabler. Look at these. • 1978 —The Dole-Bayh Act —This act basically allowed private corporations (including pharmaceuticals) to pilfer tax-funded research. • 1980 —The Supreme Court allowed biotech research to be patented." - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.)

"In this proposal each constituency would have its own bill of rights: There would be an international bill of human rights that would protect each citizen of the federation; a bill of state's rights that would limit the jurisdiction of the world federation and preserve the power of nation-states over much of their domestic affairs; and a bill of economic rights that would protect private property and secure a relative degree of freedom for economic entities." - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.) "But in addition to a bill of rights for each constituency, this proposed constitution would also provide for a "bill of responsibilities" that would describe the affirmative obligations of each group to each other and to the world federation as a whole. As illustrated in Figure A-l, the legislative branch of this proposed constitution would consist of three houses. The populist house of representatives would be elected directly by the enfranchised people of the federation in a one-person, one-vote structure that was not entirely constrained by national boundaries." - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.)

"These were the mothers and fathers of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and the authors of the bill of rights. The nurturing of children has other intergenerational social consequences. The author of the best-sellling book Freakonomics proposes a novel and provocative explanation for the dramatic decrease in violent crime in America from the early 1990s onward. The roots of this phenomenon long baffled social analysts. How could crime in a country drop by such a huge percentage in such a short time?" - Dawson Church, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention (Get the book.)

"It's always reassuring to know that hired torturers believe in the bill of rights. Remember those? • Citizens are guaranteed inviolability of the person. No one may be arrested except by a court decision or on the warrant of a procurator. • Citizens are guaranteed inviolability of the home. No one may, without lawful grounds, enter a home against the will of those residing in it. But did we imply the U.S. Constitution? We correct ourselves?we meant the Soviet Constitution." - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.)

"When the crown was offered to William and Mary, they agreed to a bill of rights that severely limited the king or queen's power. The British bill of rights is often regarded as a forerunner to the United States bill of rights. Goebbels, Joseph (yoh-zuhf geu-buhls, geu-buhlz) A German political leader of the twentieth century. Goebbels was propaganda minister of the Nazi government and a close confidant of the leader, Adolf Hitler. Goebbels's policy was based on the notion that a lie, repeated often and forcibly, gains the legitimacy of truth." - James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch, The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Get the book.)

"We can only defend freedom in this country, Bush says, by giving up our rights and passing the Patriot Act, essentially destroying the bill of rights. You no longer have the right to privacy. You no longer have the right to not be searched. These rights are being destroyed, and yet we have a nation that is so cognitively impaired, thanks to the food supply and prescription drugs that it is being given, that it can no longer make honest decisions." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"We think there is a constitution; we think there is a bill of rights. We think that each individual person has the right under the law to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We think that the First Amendment of the United States Constitution guarantees that every person has the right of free speech, which means that every person has the right, in any format, to express his opinions and beliefs even though the government or the majority may disagree with and dislike those opinions and beliefs." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"The American Hospital Association encourages health care institutions to tailor this bill of rights to their patient community by translating and/or simplifying the language of this bill of rights as may be necessary 'The American Hospital Association's Patient's Hill of Rights. Reprinted with permission of the American Hospital Association, copyright 1992. to ensure that patients and their families understand their rights and responsibilities. Bill of Rights* 1. The patient has the right to considerate and respectful care. 2." - Sheldon P. Blau, M.D., F.A.C.P., F.A.C.R. and Elaine Fantle Shimberg, How to Get Out of the Hospital Alive: A Guide to Patient Power (Get the book.) "The American Hospital Association presents "A Patient's Bill of Rights" with the expectation that it will contribute to more effective patient care and be supported by the hospital on behalf of the institution, its medical staff, employees, and patients. The American Hospital Association encourages health care institutions to tailor this bill of rights to their patient community by translating and/or simplifying the language of this bill of rights as may be necessary 'The American Hospital Association's Patient's Hill of Rights." - Sheldon P. Blau, M.D., F.A.C.P., F.A.C.R. and Elaine Fantle Shimberg, How to Get Out of the Hospital Alive: A Guide to Patient Power (Get the book.)

"When the crown was offered to William and Mary, they agreed to a bill of rights that severely limited the king or queen's power. The British bill of rights is often regarded as a forerunner to the United States bill of rights. Goebbels, Joseph (YOH-zuhf GEU-buhls) A German political leader of the twentieth century. Goebbels was propaganda minister of the Nazi government and a close confidant of the leader, Adolf Hitler. Goebbels's policy was based on the notion that a lie, repeated often and forcibly, gains the legitimacy of truth." - E. D. Hirsch, The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy (Get the book.)

"Pandering to this passion, politicians assure people that they have a "right to health" and that their maladies are "no-fault diseases"; promise them a "patient's bill of rights" and an America "free of cancer" and "free of drugs"; and stupefy them with an inexhaustible torrent of mind-altering prescription drugs and mind-numbing anti-disease and anti-drug propaganda—as if anyone could be for illness or drug abuse. Formerly, people rushed to embrace totalitarian states. Now they rush to embrace the therapeutic state." - Thomas Szasz, The Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays (Get the book.) "Instead of confronting the differences and conflicts between public health and private health, politicians, physicians, and laypeople debate slogans, such as the right to health, the patient's bill of rights, patient autonomy, and the wars on drugs, cancer, diabetes, and mental illness. in In the nineteenth century, when scientific medicine was in its infancy, disease was defined by pathologists; effective remedies were virtually nonexistent; and the term "treatment" meant medical care sought and paid for by the patient." - Thomas Szasz, The Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays (Get the book.)

"One is the defense of our homes and the other is the bill of rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket." So said Major General Smedley Bulter, USMC, the highest-ranking Marine of his day, in a speech in 1933. His book War Is a Racket (republished by Feral House, 2003) is a classic condemnation of war. If it were true that we fight wars for benevolent means, why did we stand by and allow the recent genocide in Sudan; past genocides in East Timor, Cambodia, Rwanda, and Yugoslavia; or continually look the other way from various despots around the world who have brutalized their people?" - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.) "The Second bill of rights was proposed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in his State of the Union speech on January 11, 1944. How far we have regressed in sixty-odd years! Yes, the Right-Side Up world encourages acceptance, tolerance, and freedom to live the way one wants as long as it harms no other. Conflict is met with compassion, and human unity is the guiding principle for society. The Choice You are standing on this bridge between two worlds—one is upside-down, the other is Right-Side Up. The bridge is about to collapse. You must make a choice to go in one or the other direction." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"They would scrap the entire bill of rights in less than 24 hours if it meant guaranteed 10 percent annual real estate gains. And if free markets could always outproduce centrally planned slavery, why was he worried about losing out to the Soviets? It was obvious we could beat them—because we could afford far more and better weapons. Realpolitik was Kissinger's approach to foreign policy. It began by taking people as he found them, whether they wanted Western-style freedom or not, and making the best of the situation." - William Bonner, Addison Wiggin, Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis (Get the book.) "Should we suspend the bill of rights in order to combat terrorists more effectively? Many people wondered, including your author, what was the point of the war against Iraq. The country had no part in terrorist attacks. Au con-traire, Saddam's Iraq was a bulwark of secular pragmatism in an area unsettled by religious fanaticism. It was the religious fanatics who posed a danger, said the papers, not the ruthless dictators who suppressed them. Others wondered if an attack on Iraq would make the world safer or more dangerous." - William Bonner, Addison Wiggin, Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis (Get the book.)

"Constitution's bill of rights keeps the subordinate governments its constituent states from discriminating against their citizens, so too would a universal bill of human rights act as a safeguard that would allow more control to be invested in smaller, regional political entities." - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.)

"This statement updated the Fifth Amendment's "due process" clause by maintaining that the guarantees in the bill of rights apply to the states as well as to the national government. Though the Supreme Court was slow to enforce this clause, by the 1960s it had ruled that states could not pass laws that violated the bill of rights. The Fourteenth Amendment also guarantees equal protection of the laws. franchise In politics, the right to vote." - E. D. Hirsch, The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy (Get the book.)

"After all, this is America where we have the Constitution of the United States and the bill of rights. The First Amendment to the Constitution gives me, as an American citizen, the absolute right of free speech. Unfortunately, many of you may not know that the Federal Trade Commission is more powerful than the U.S. Constitution. Many of you may not know that the FDA is also more powerful than the U.S. Constitution. These two organizations are used by the administration to suppress the free flow of information and ideas." - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.) "This is why the forefathers wrote an amendment to the Constitution in the first bill of rights protecting the free speech of those individuals. It is important to note that the forefathers wrote the First Amendment to protect the free flow of ideas and opinions. It was specifically designed to protect the poorest person in town and guarantee and make sure he had the same platform as the richest man in town or the powerful politician." - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.) "This is exactly what the forefathers wanted to prevent when they wrote the bill of rights and the First Amendment. Now, in today's society, the platform of expressing one's ideas is primarily television, which is the most powerful medium, followed by radio, then by the print media—newspapers and magazines. The poor people and commoners in today's society are routinely excluded from expressing their views and opinions by the rich and powerful, and politicians." - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.)

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