At the North Carolina Ratification Convention, former Attorney General James Iredell speaks of the impracticality of adding a bill of rights to the Constitution for the united States: “[I]t would be impossible to enumerate every [right]. Let any one make what collection of rights he pleases, I will immediately name twenty or thirty rights not contained in it.”
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Authority:
Magna Carta, Chapter 13
ccc-2point0.com/magna-carta-excerpts
References:
Robert A. Levy and William Mellor, The Dirty Dozen: How twelve Supreme Court cases radically expanded government and eroded freedom, (New York: Sentinel, 2008), 184-86.
Online Library of Liberty – The Debates in the Several State Conventions of the Adoption of the Federal Constitution vol. 4
oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=1908&layout=html
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