Some positive things have also been introduced over the years -- for example, the Miranda Act. But the price of having a freedom-based system where constraints are the exceptions is that you have to stay awake and notice when the mealymouths are grabbing another inch under their over-used shopworn guidon of "Necessity".

It would be a fine thing to see an indepth chronological analysis of erosions deployed since the Bill of Rights was adopted.

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