free thinker
16-05-2009, 09:21 AM
Has the time come for us to invoke article 61 ?...
"The rights or…liberties of Englishmen…consist primarily in the free enjoyment of personal security, of personal liberty, and of private property…To vindicate these rights, when actually violated or attacked, the subjects of England are entitled, in the first place, to the regular administration and free course of justice in the courts of law; next, to the right of petitioning the king and parliament for redress of grievances; and lastly to the right of having and using arms for self-preservation and defence.
"And all these rights and liberties it is our birthright to enjoy entire; unless where the laws of our country have laid them under necessary restraints…so gentle and moderate…that no man of sense or probity would wish to see them slackened."
"The rights or…liberties of Englishmen…consist primarily in the free enjoyment of personal security, of personal liberty, and of private property…To vindicate these rights, when actually violated or attacked, the subjects of England are entitled, in the first place, to the regular administration and free course of justice in the courts of law; next, to the right of petitioning the king and parliament for redress of grievances; and lastly to the right of having and using arms for self-preservation and defence.
"And all these rights and liberties it is our birthright to enjoy entire; unless where the laws of our country have laid them under necessary restraints…so gentle and moderate…that no man of sense or probity would wish to see them slackened."