They won't allow those of us who were sworn to uphold the U.S. Constitution to even offer an amendment that says we believe in our First Amendment right to religious freedom.
And in a 2002 dissent involving the firing of a police officer who had distributed bigoted materials, she said the majority bypassed precedent and entered "uncharted territory in our First Amendment jurisprudence" because it disliked the officer's views.
As for Canada's copyright laws, a close reading of the penalties detailed in our new amendment to the copyright act, C-11, leads to some uncertainties.
The notion that "guns don't kill people, people kill people," commonly contended by those strict believers in our Second Amendment rights, is essentially true.
We fully believe in our 2nd Amendment, We fully believe in most everyone's right to bear arms for self-protection; after all, it's even an Olympic event.
Without the protections enshrined in our First Amendment, discourse over the internet would be greatly inhibited, protesters would be unable to organize, and dissidents and activists would be targeted by those in power and locked out of the system.
It is ironic that the unelected Second Chamber should be the vehicle that today allows the elected House of Commons to think again on this most basic aspect of parliamentary democracy and I hope that MPs will support our amendment in the Lobbies.
Before the vote, co-sponsor Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican, told the Guardian: "We're pressing forward because passage of our amendment in this political environment will send the strongest message possible that Congress is still dedicated to the privacy protections enshrined in the fourth amendment".
The extraction sheet for the risk of bias was finalised before, but inadvertently not mentioned, in our protocol amendments of May 2013.
"If the government are serious about ending slavery in Britain, they should accept our amendment".
