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Who Owns the Constitution?

With Republicans in power, equal protection under the laws will continue to diminish

Comments (0) By Nat Hentoff Tuesday, May 3 2005

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Who among the leaders of the Democratic Party is saying that now—when we are still far from the fulfillment of the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of "due process of law" and the right of "any person" to "the equal protection of the laws"?

"A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people," said James Madison, the chief architect of the Bill of Rights. Where are these teachers of the people in the Democratic Party leadership?

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