Essential liberties are the liberties that the writers of the Constitution--and more importantly the writers of the Bill of Rights--felt were necessary to the nation they wanted to create.
They include, but are not limited to, the rights to free speech, free press, privacy and due process.
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Date: 2003-05-05 02:45 pm (UTC)Essential liberties are the liberties that the writers of the Constitution--and more importantly the writers of the Bill of Rights--felt were necessary to the nation they wanted to create.
They include, but are not limited to, the rights to free speech, free press, privacy and due process.