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

...fills the highest judicial office under the federal government. • Our state bill of rights declares, that the freedom of the press . is one of the great -bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments. The, constitutions x;f most of the other states...

...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,...

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

...The most famous of these state documents, the Virginia Declaration of Rights ( 1 776), stated "that freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotick governments." Liberty of the press, not always honored in...

...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...