It is the right of government to protect the weak; it is the right of the weak to find in their courts fair treatment before the law.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Protection of private property is a fundamental right protected in a strong democracy.
The right and the physical power of the people to resist injustice, are really the only securities that any people ever can have for their liberties. Practically no government knows any limit to its power but the endurance of the people.
The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws, whenever he receives an injury. One of the first duties of government is to afford that protection.
Who needs the protection of the Bill of Rights most? The weak, the most vulnerable in society.
The right to protect the health and well-being of every person, of those we love, is a basic human right.
The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law.
It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.
If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law.
The right to justice is something that no one can bestow, nor take away, for it is in one's heart.