They were denied, that is the reason he was granted a new trial.

Its the right of "peaceable assembly" A case can be made that a mob chanting for someone's blood is not peaceable and therefore has no constitution right to assembly

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It was a case that pitted the 1st Amendment versus the Sixth Amendment . . . and the Sixth won. Granted the trial judge made plenty of errors for the reversal, but many cases have used this case as precedent and the sixth amendment comes out on top.

A group of people gathering and chanting slogans, whether they are chanting that he is guilty or not, is a Constitutional right. It is free speech and freedom of assembly. Fact is, the sixth amendment trumps them both, as well it should.

If a group of people were chanting "Oj did it" over and over wouldn't that be free speech?

It would be true speech but if they were disrupting the trial then I think the court has the right to remove them. They are getting in the way to the right of a speedy trial.

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That is an old lame and uneducated arguement. Anyone knows a god or creator is not in the constitution. Once they tried to put it in after the fact but it was voted down because of a firm belief that it was not needed because it was well known that the belief and reasons for such beliefs was well known and established. The declaration of independance and many records of founding fathers more than prove the reason they and others felt American citazens should be gauranteed certain rights. Now you don't have to believe in god to understand why they did as they did. And putting down or denying god exist will not change what they believed or why they did as they did. If not for their belief in god we might not have the declaration of independance nor the bill of rights. That is a fact, and as far as who gives us those rights well hell man does but based on what reasoning is the question. And the answer as far as the United States is the belief in god. As far as what is right or wrong or moral or imoral well that depends on the people and the time in history as to what is acceptable to society or is not. In fact there is no true right or wrong we make those assumptions then enforce them as moral law..

As far as religion well it is my own personal belief that it began because it was the only way man could explain his enviorment and existance and mortality etc. As man got smarter religion changed to suit man and abused by many as to control the masses. Just my opinion but in the case of the vikings it is a fact. Now many bad things have been done in the name of religion but many good things have came from it also. As far as morals well they are nothing more than rules for a socialized society to live by to co-exist as peaceably as possable and they are of great use and important. As far as the example you used well it was stupid and had nothing to do with morals or lack their of. The chick had no guts to stand up for what she believed and you did. She then put you down for doing what inside she herself wanted too but did not have the backbone to do. hmmmmmmmm I think the moral thing in question is honesty something she does not have good or bad.

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They are also inpeading the persons right to a fair trial. Wich he is innocent until proven guilty. A freedom of anything does not give you the freedom to infring on others same rights. This is a line that is often crossed by those proclaiming thier right to do certain things and the bill of rights does not give you the right to step on others rights in the free exercise of your own. This is where your chanters loose and need to shut up.

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You're just butt hurt, I would be too if I didn't get life. cunt stain

Is that seriously the best you have?

Fact is, what I said was correct. Now go sell some cheap ass T-shirts out of your garage Mr. Big Time.

If those men had truely considered that all of our rights came "from Heaven", then the words of the preamble would perhaps be worded in the manner of a later US government, the Confederacy, which states...

WE, the People of the Confederated States, each State acting in its sovereign and independent character, in order to form a permanent Federal government, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquillity, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, invoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Confederate States of America.

For men who "considered our laws decended from on high", there is a certain, and complete, lack of mention of deity in that document.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights

Inalienable rights, by definition, are not granted by the state - no human grants these rights. They are rights which no state has the power to confer because being human entitles you to these rights.

Again, you can agree or disagree, but some of the Founders did say that these inalienable rights were granted by a higher power. Since inalienable rights by definition cannot be granted by the state (only protected), they could not come from the state. I suppose the argument could be made that the protection of these rights is the same as granting them, but it is just semantics.

I am not agreeing with them that God or some other higher power is actually granting these rights, but that many of the Founders did indeed say this. I am also stating that inalienable rights are not granted by the state.

Your right is what is left over from what the law has taken away.

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