Most significantly, the bill would shift the cost of discovery for anything other than "core document discovery" to the requesting party (the default rule is that producing party foots the bill for document collection and production).
Similar to the U.S. Bill of Rights, the document also still has "holdover" rights, or rights left over from fear of Britain during the Revolutionary War.
Earlier this year, I signed onto the Veterans' Bill of Rights, a document meant to galvanize support for veterans and spur improvements in service at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
In this sense, the situation is not analogous to a government document like the Bill of Rights, as that document is meant to define national law i.e. "I didn't choose to be an American citizen, so I sure as hell want laws guaranteeing my rights as a citizen".
American revolutionaries, for instance, borrowed their bill of rights from the document of the same name that was passed at Westminster in 1689.
As I stood in interminable security lines after arriving two hours before a flight, I'd fume and think about the Bill of Rights -- a document that apparently held no power inside an airport.
State legislation dating from the 1970s, including a "peace officer's bill of rights", places such documents under arguably the tightest restrictions on police records in all the US.
Last year, Amistad students elected delegates to a constitutional convention, which spent months honing a document whose bill of rights includes a guarantee that taxes will not rise above 40percentt of income.
If you're shipping your purchases separately, you don't need to have your receipts validated, but you should include the bill of lading and import-export documents with your refund application.
In this way, by subtle reformation and amendment, the great document became a "bill of powers and a bill of rights combined".
In the new Constitution, the president's power to rule by decree is curtailed, and the document bolsters the bill of rights by banning cruel punishments and torture.
