Armed with the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the far-reaching guarantees of liberty and equality that they contained, Douglass took the fight directly to the slaveholders.
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Faced with a president they find repulsive to the core and with unfunded future payment obligations in the many trillions, Democrats think now is the time to really unleash Washington.
New York Assemblymember Yuh-Line Niou is a plaintiff in a lawsuit to stop a Habitat for Humanity housing project.
And 20 percent don't know atheists have the same rights as everyone else.
Granting "amnesty" supposes that a wrong was committed. But an immigrant without papers has done nothing wrong.
Admitting privileges rule can't "be taken seriously as a measure to improve women's health," says federal appeals court.
The change emphasizes a commitment to "equality between men and women in matters of sexual relations and sexuality."
All further "rights" are simply applications of our basic right not to be aggressed against.
If politicians treated the Constitution as if it were handed down from heaven rather than a pliable set of guidelines, the U.S. would be a better place.
Freedom means the right to ignore the state and live peacefully.
Much of the political class of the founding generation, unlike our own, viewed the Constitution as restraining, not unleashing, the government.
FEC Chairman Lee Goodman says the dark money debate is nothing more than an effort to regulate speech using government power.
A crop of current religious freedom cases are more predicated on wringing special protections from the state than legit struggles for religious liberty.
President Obama, most congressional Democrats, and many congressional Republicans are ardent progressives-they believe government is the chief engine of human progress.
In Colorado, the Constitution is subordinate to hurt feelings and nuptial pastries.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein has no problem with experiments with American liberties, unless she and her staff are the victims.
The case isn't just about guns, but also about what it means for the public to have "rights."
From chimpanzees to artificial intelligence, science is raising important questions about just who, and what, has rights.
A bill backed by leading Republicans and Democrats, big business, and government-co-opted unions is bound to have missed some things.
Denies rights to "corporations" which includes media companies, unions and the ACLU
How arguments shielding the Gosnell trial from use in the debate about reproductive rights work just as well for gun rights
Made comments to German students while discussing the freedom of speech
Solitary confinement was a particular stumbling block
46 percent think the federal government is a threat to rights, 45 percent see it as a protector of rights
AP treats opinions as facts, then says the opinions are wrong.