As for other facets of Constitutional erosion, just go down the list of amendments in the Bill of Rights: rights reserved to the States usurped, freedom of speech diluted or corrupted, laws undermining the separation of church and state, and diminishing the right of free assembly, not to mention compromises of the irghts of citizens to be secure in their persons and effects, instances of cruel and unusual punishment and the suspension of habeus corpus under conditions of "urgent necessity".

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