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Congress vs. the Bill of Rights

27 Aug

Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today?

It wouldn’t even get out of committee.

– F. Lee Bailey, Newsweek, 17 April 1967

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Posted by kazvorpal on August 27, 2009 in Politics

 

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