Handgun Violence Prevention Act of 1987: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundredth Congress, Second Session, on S. 466, a Bill to Provide for a Waiting Period Before the Sale, Delivery, Or Transfer of a Handgun, August 2, 1988, Volumen4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1989 - 156 páginas |
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Página 113 - The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets. These indeed have been historic weapons in the defense of liberty, as the pamphlets of Thomas Paine and others in our own history abundantly attest. The press in its historic connotation comprehends every sort of publication which affords a vehicle of information and opinion.
Página 106 - It would give to persons of the negro race, who were recognized as citizens in any one State of the Union, the right to enter every other State whenever they pleased, singly or in companies, without pass or passport, and without obstruction, to sojourn there as long as they pleased...
Página 101 - 2. c. 2., and it is indeed a public allowance under due restrictions, of the natural right of resistance and selfpreservation, when the sanctions of society and laws are found insufficient to restrain the violence of oppression.
Página 102 - Sir, during that state • of things, Parliament was not idle. They attempted to subdue the fierce spirit of the Welsh by all sorts of rigorous laws. They prohibited by statute the sending all sorts of arms into Wales, as you prohibit by proclamation (with something more of doubt on the legality) the sending arms to America.
Página 105 - to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them...
Página 107 - The law is perfectly well settled that the first ten amendments to the Constitution, commonly known as the Bill of Rights, were not intended to lay down any novel principles of government, but simply to embody certain guaranties and immunities which we had inherited from our English ancestors, and which had from time immemorial been subject to certain well-recognized exceptions arising from the necessities of the case.
Página 101 - And, lastly, 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.
Página 105 - OF THE SECOND AMENDMENT When the Constitution was proposed in 1787 without a Bill of Rights, the federalists argued that one was unnecessary, since Congress had no enumerated power to control rights such as a free press and bearing arms. In The Federalist No.
Página 106 - As civil rulers/ not having their duty to the people duly before them/ may attempt to tyrannize/ and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow-citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms.
Página 115 - Appellant first contends that "the trial court erred in holding as a matter of law that handguns are exempt from Georgia's product liability law because the lack of safety connected with such weapons raises a political, nonjustif iable question.