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  • 'We are facing a massive assault on our liberties' (interview with Al Gore)

    11/04/2006 5:24:22 PM PST · by Pokey78 · 47 replies · 905+ views
    The Observer (U.K.) ^ | 11/05/06 | Henry Porter
    HP: I wonder if you feel that a constitution like the American one makes people more aware of their rights. AG: I think it does. Those who wrote the constitution were very steeped in the culture of the printed word and the essays that were written to define the theory of representative democracy. The debates and the Constitutional Convention were all re-capitulated in elaborate written accounts. The debates over each precise word actually did focus public attention then, and continue to influence public attention now, to individual rights. HP: Is a constitution a way of putting certain rights beyond the...