Among the Intellectualoids/Wronging the Bill of Rights
Evers, Williamson M.
AMONG THE INTELLECTUALOIDS WRONGING THE BILL OF RIGHTS Aspart of its bicentennial Bill of Rights exhibition, my local children's library featured a guide for librarians and schoolteachers, listing...
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...Constitutional liberty is abridged if the government establishes a state church or outlaws religious practices...
...The poster omitted the Ninth Amendment (inherent but unenumerated rights) and the Second (right to bear arms), and it condensed the Tenth so as to leave the powers reserved to states completely out of the picture...
...AMONG THE INTELLECTUALOIDS WRONGING THE BILL OF RIGHTS Aspart of its bicentennial Bill of Rights exhibition, my local children's library featured a guide for librarians and schoolteachers, listing thirty seven works of fiction suitable for introducing children to the Bill of Rights...
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...The Fourth Amendment protects people and their property against "unreasonable searches and seizures...
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...The British expropriate Rebecca's house in particular because the male members of her family are fighting the British...
...The Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendments protect the rights of individuals accused of crimes by regulating what the government may do to them...
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...If the government assisted vandals who were persecuting those of a certain religion, that would be a serious constitutional violation...
...One of the books (Sweet Bells Jangled Out of Time, 1983) is about a bag lady who gets help she does not want from a girl...
...In a 1962 article in Horn Magazine, the leading American magazine about children's books, he wrote that the experience of Americans before the Revolution "demonstrated that man needs constant protection from his own government...
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...But individual vandals —as in Prank—should be prosecuted as vandals, not as violators of the Bill of Rights...
...But a young person's perhaps undue solicitude for an elderly person is not a constitutional issue...
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...Elleman thinks that reading about the Bill of Rights should root out bad, unprogressive attitudes...
...Now the list: Elleman thinks that Rebecca's War (1972), by Ann Finlayson, illustrates what is at stake in the Third Amendment, which restricts the quartering of troops in civilian residences...
...But the Third Amendment is not meant to prevent hostile troops occupying your residence in wartime—it bars troops of your own government occupying your house in peacetime...
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...The real problem is that Elleman does not know what the Bill of Rights is all about: namely, protecting individuals from government power...
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...it is not in itself a constitutional matter...
...But the Revolutionary War not only sought to overthrow tyranny, it also established certain inalienable rights for people, rights which if established would protect mankind from tyranny in all the centuries ahead...
...Even when she lists books about rights, they are seldom the best-written and most memorable available...
...These might be legitimate Fourteenth Amendment "due process" or "equal protection" cases, but what the Fourth Amendment does, in the usual case, is mandate procedural safeguards when the police are searching for and gathering evidence...
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...Believing that practitioners of certain religions are diabolical creatures is ethically vile...
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...She thinks the Bill of Rights is a set of social sentiments rather than a rein on governinent action...
...In listing fiction pertinent to the Second Amendment, Elleman includes no books about protecting people from government infringement on their right to bear arms...
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...Rebecca's house is requisitioned early on by the British, who billet troops there...
...Although Elleman's list emphasizes issues fashionable with contemporary welfare-state liberals—AIDS, feminism, labor organizing, animal rights, racism, sex education in public schools, problems of the homeless and the elderly, and the civil rights of Communist party members—this emphasisis not a fatal flaw...
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Vol. 24 • December 1991 • No. 12
