Page 10 Portland Observer DECEMBER 6, 1989
T here was o n e glaring
< »missic >n in o u r Constitution and
Thom as Jefferson d idn’t waste
any tim e in picking up o n it.
I lis feelings aliout die necessity
()l inc< )rp( »rating a bill o f rights
w ere perhaps best expressed
w hen he said in a letter to Jam es
Madist >n “I have a right to nothing,
which an o th er has a right to take
away...”
Clearly he was still sm arting
from die injustices suffered
under the Crown.
Jefferson wasn’t alone. Many
Americans w ere very vocal about
die need to adopt a bill o f rights.
And s i»began a long and involved
am endm ent prt »cess.
1 w o h u n d re d years later w e
celebrate the results o f all the
com m ittee m eetings, all the
debates, and all the voting.
We celebrate die 200th anni­
versary of the Bill o f Rights—
the w ritten guarantee o f o u r per­
sonal freedom s. It’s a guarantee
that has already lasted m any
lifetimes, and if w e keep o u r
guard up it will last m any m ore.
“...a bill o f rights
is what the people
are entitled to
against every
government
on earth...”
THOMAS Jl I I I RSON
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