"Foolish liberals who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the constitution by claiming it’s not an individual right or that it’s too much of a safety hazard don’t see the danger of the big picture. They’re courting disaster by encouraging others to use this same means to eliminate portions of the Constitution they don’t like."
-- Alan Dershowitz
(1938- ) Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School
Source: The Conceptual Foundations of Anglo-American Jurisprudence in Religion and Reason, 82 Mich L. Rev., 204 (Dan Gifford), 1995
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Alan.Dershowitz.Quote.35FD
The above quote reminds me of how some do interpretation of the Scriptures. You cannot remove what you don't like without damaging the whole.
"I cannot assent to the view, if it be meant that the legislature may impair or bridge the rights of a free press and of free speech whenever it thinks that the public welfare requires that it be done. The public welfare cannot override constitutional privilege."
-- John Marshall Harlan
(1899-1971) U. S. Supreme Court Justice
Source: Patterson v. Chicago
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/John.Harlan.Quote.4051
Have a blessed day.
BE
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