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A Bill of Rights, so to say, canonizes the safeguards of freedom; and, thereby, it persuades men to worship at the altar who might not otherwise note its existence.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski describes a Bill of Rights as a means of sanctifying freedom's safeguards and encouraging public recognition of them.
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