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The Nose Knows
Over a period of centuries as the English monarchy became less and less absolute, the English system of jurisprudence developed firm notions of personal liberty, equity, the right to confront one’s accusers, the presumption of innocence, and the right to trial by a jury of one’s peers.
Those sure principles were transported to the Colonies intact, or nearly so, and were exalted first in the Declaration of Independence, then in the Articles of Confederation, and then, particularly, in the first ten Amendments to the Constitution. One marvels at the sparseness of the writing. The authors understood the impossibility of covering every…
1Apr2009 | William Kurtz | 0 comments | Continued
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