A Stroll Through the Bill of Rights

Free Government is that happy condition wherein government respects and protects the unalienable, Natural Rights of the nation, and makes no law without its consent. Our Bill of Rights actually grants nothing, but rather serves to recognize God-given individual and societal rights. But rights don’t defend themselves. James Madison famously regarded Bills of Rights as mere “parchment barriers” easily breached by ambitious men. To keep them in force requires institutions designed for their defense, and an active citizenry covetous of liberty. So, how many are actually respected and protected by government? How near or distant is free government? I posit...