Civil Liberties: The Crucial Issue

January, 1969

Civil Liberties: The Crucial IssueMost Modern Constitutions contain promises of things that government must do for people. Our Constitution, an 18th Century product, guarantees no one such benefits as an education, social security or the right to work. It is not a welfare-state document. To the contrary, it specifies in some detail what government may not do to the individual. In other words, it was designed to take government off the backs of people and majorities off the backs of minorities.It...