Life_&_Liberty

Life & Liberty Life and Liberty “A bill of rights are what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse.” –Thomas Jefferson 1781 “There has been no abuse of rights, and sometimes we must weigh rights against responsibilities.” -Attorney General John Ashcroft 2004 Since our founding fathers first drafted a constitution, America’s core values have been life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; without interference from the government. For the better part of two hundred years, Americans have focused on developing a fair and free democracy, in which everyone has an equal say and as many individual rights and freedoms as are possible in an effective society. Every once in a while, (America fights a major war about every twenty years on average.) improving and maintaining democracy falls into the shadows, and protecting what we have created becomes American’s foremost concern. The U.S.A. Patriot Act was passed on October 26, 2001, with almost no opposition from Congress. (Senate 98-1, House of Representatives 357-66.)(Life & Liberty) The country was still shaken by the event of September the 11th. In fact while the bill was in deliberation, there was almost no opposition of any kind from special interest groups or organizations nationwide. act, americans, patriot, bill, american, right, rights, law, section, privacy, freedoms, been, without, while, usa, government, evergreen, enforcement, about, title, terrorism, state, sections, say, pipa, opposition, once, local, information, immediate, groups, gallup, every, detained, democracy, believe