Tuesday, June 13, 2006

A) Section 7: 2) Liberty a) Civil Liberty

Civil liberty is the greatest amount of absolute liberty which can in the nature of things be equally possessed by every citezen in a state. - Bouvier's Law Dictionary (1914) Rawle's 3rd revision (1984)

Constitutional guarantees are the last and best fruits of civil liberty. The bulwarks of civil liberty consist of public acts passsed for the purpose for defining and regulating the exercise of the sovereign powers of the state. It is only in this way that the personal rights of the citizen can be secured against invasion by the supreme authority... Ord. Const. Leg 168 -
Bouvier's Law Dictionary (1914) Rawle's 3rd revision (1984)

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