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Bill of Rights day!
Posted by David Hardy · 15 December 2018 06:57 PM
December 15!
I was in DC during the Bicentennial of the Constitution (1987-89) and during what should have been the bicentennial of the Bill of Rights (1991). The first got big play, a commission headed by Chief Justice Burger, celebrations, etc.. The second was virtually ignored. My guess at the reason was that DC is of course a company town, the company is the federal government, and the Constitution is what gave that company power. The Bill of Rights ... well, it was nice but not really that important.
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The Bill of Rights is a bill of limitations on the company...
Absolutely correct about D.C. being a 'company town'.
The powers derived from the governed. The restrictive clauses of the Bill of Rights - the company don't like that, see. It's a nice country ya have here. It'd be a shame if something happened to it.