...is critical. George Mason, author of The Virginia Declaration of Rights, pointed out in Article XII that, "The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty and can never be restrained but by despotic government." While we are generally optimistic about the future...

...man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other, and ought to be held sacred. Section 12 That the freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments. Section 13 That a well-regulated militia, composed...

...all subjects, being responsible for an abuse of this liberty. Title 7, Art 111. — North Carolina: That the freedom of the press is one of the great...liberty, and therefore ought never to be restrained. Declaration of Rights, § 15. — South Carolina : The trial by jury, as heretofore used in this State,...

...ignored them. The North Carolina constitution had no explicit protection for free speech but asserted that "the freedom of the Press is one of the great...bulwarks of liberty, and therefore ought never to be restrained."44 In 1860, the North Carolina legislature amended the incendiary docu[295] ment statute....

...Federalist and Jeffersonian, saw no contradiction between the assertion in Virginia's 1776 Bill of Rights "that the freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotick governments" and its 1792 "Act Against Divulgers of False...

...terms of protections for the political community. Thus, the Virginia Declaration of Rights asserts that "the freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments," and the Delaware Declaration of Rights that "Trial...

...speech. The North Carolina Constitution had no explicit protection for free speech, but it did provide that "the freedom of the Press is one of the great...bulwarks of liberty, and therefore ought never to be restrained."109 In 1 860 the North Carolina legislature amended the incendiary document statute. Worth's...

...and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other, and ought to be held sacred. Sec. 12. That the freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments. Sec. 13. That a well-regulated militia, composed...

...commanded to search suspected places without evidence of a fact committed, ought not to be granted; (ix) e University Press can never be restrained; (xi) that the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed...

...Virginia in 1776, where delegates adopted the Declaration of Rights, penned by George Mason, which stated, 'That the freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotick governments.'61 After the Revolution, the United States operated...