A second drafter was Tie Liu, editor of the privately published magazine Wangshi Weihen, or Scars of the Past, another signer, retired publisher Yu Haocheng, added.
Harries added, "He's the best first-drafter I've ever read.
Inevitably, the drafters' first task would be to devise a workable definition of "peaceful protest" so it can be protected and, as important, so we can consign "direct action" to the realms of unprotection.
First the constitution's drafters must decide what sort of nation they want to be.
That second statement, whose drafters include He Weifang, the editor of the Beijing University Law Journal, said the detention system had brought repeated cases of "gross abuse of power and violation of human rights".
Thus one might have very good historical reason to believe that it could not have been among the intentions of the Eighth Amendment's drafters to ban such a practice.
Justice Thomas said the drafters of the First Amendment did not understand it to protect minors' free speech rights.
There is little evidence that the drafters of the First Amendment meant to single out a set of businesses for special protection.
He was a principal drafter of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which, until recently, was known almost exclusively for Section 1, the guarantee of legal due process and equal protection.
The thought, he said, would have been foreign to the drafters of the First Amendment, drawing a needling comment from Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., the lone dissenter in the Stevens case.
In an argument over a law barring the sale of violent video games to minors, Justice Scalia asked what the drafters of the First Amendment thought about government restrictions on depictions of violence.
