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By Leonard W. Levy
A background of the origins of the invoice of Rights. It bargains a wide ranging view of the liberties secured by means of the 1st ten amendments to the structure - with an research of the heritage of the invoice of Rights which means of every provision of the amendments.
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Virginia's lower house, controlled by the Federalists, acted quickly, but the opposition dominated the state senate. Not all Anti-Federalists were implacably opposed. Some respected George Mason's opinion. " But Mason changed his mind, saying that they gave "much satisfaction," though he still wanted other amendments, including one that prevented commercial regulations by mere majority vote of Congress. " For that reason, Randolph reported to Washington, the Federalists meant to "push" the Bill of Rights; passage would "discountenance an?
T h e Bill of Rights had a great healing effect, however; it did, as Mason originally proposed, "give great quiet" to the people. " The people of the United States had had the good sense, nourished by traditions of freedom, to support the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. CHAPTER TWO Habeas Corpus T H E WRIT OF HABEAS CORPL'S-a writ to "have the body"-goes back in English history to time immemorial. T h e writ is even older than Magna Carta and may have originated in the courts of chancery. For centuries it served a variety of purposes; for example, it enabled the royal courts to command the presence of a person so that a suit might commence or continue.
By legislative enactment they were condemned for treason and murder, and on failure to surrender were subject to being killed by anvone. At the Virginia ratifying convention, Edmund Randolph, irked beyond endurance by Henry's assaults on the Constitution as dangerous to personal liberties, recalled with "horror" the "shocking" attainder. " T h e Framers of the Constitution tended to be skeptical about the value of "parchment barriers" against "overbearing majorities," as Madison said. H e had seen repeated violations of bills of rights in every state.