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Paying the Bill of Rights 0

The Bill of Rights is, arguably, what distinguishes the United States of America from other countries–that it chose to codify at its inception rights reserved to the citizenry.

We can use an executive who understands what the Bill of Rights actually means and understands that, if the concept of the “rule of law” is to have meaning, it applies to everyone; that occupancy of high office does not exempt one from obeying the law, even laws he or she doesn’t like or finds inconvenient.

Hell, that’s really the point of the law. To be inconvenient, so that persons can’t go off and conveniently do bad things.

Like torture.

IF (sic) Barack Obama wins in November, we could have not only our first president who is an African-American, but also our first president who is a civil libertarian. Throughout his career, Mr. Obama has been more consistent than Hillary Clinton on issues from the Patriot Act to bans on flag burning. At the same time, he has reached out to Republicans and independents to build support for his views. Mrs. Clinton, by contrast, has embraced some of the instrumental tacking of Bill Clinton, whose presidency disappointed liberal and conservative civil libertarians on issue after issue.

Addendum, Later That Same Evening:

More evidence from Duncan.

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