The Bill Of Rights Never Gets Off

You In The Media Ought To Be Ashamed Of Yourselves To Call The Provisions And The Guarantees Of The Bill Of Rights 'technicalities'. They're Not. We Are What We Are Because Of Those Guarantees.

With Respect To The Death Penalty, I Believe That A Majority Of The Supreme Court Will One Day Accept That When The State Punishes With Death, It Denies The Humanity And Dignity Of The Victim And Transgresses The Prohibition Against Cruel And Unusual Punishment. That Day Will Be A Great Day For Our Country, For It Will Be A Great Day For Our Constitution.

The Framers Of The Bill Of Rights Did Not Purport To 'create' Rights. Rather, They Designed The Bill Of Rights To Prohibit Our Government From Infringing Rights And Liberties Presumed To Be Preexisting.

Lawyers, Before Any Other Group, Must Continue To Point Out How The System Is Really Working-how It Actually Affects Real People. They Must Constantly Demonstrate To Courts And Legislatures Alike The Tragic Results Of Legal Nonintervention. They Must Highlight How Legal Doctrines No Longer Bear Any Relation To Reality, Whether In Landlord And Tenant Law, Holder In Due Course Law, Or Any Other Law. In Sum, Lawyers Must Bring Real Morality Into The Legal Consciousness

Death Is Not Only An Unusually Severe Punishment, Unusual In Its Pain, In Its Finality And In Its Enormity, But Is Serves No Penal Purpose More Effectively Than A Less Severe Punishment.