Is it possible, in this deep part of the ideological side, to speak a set of principles in democracy in American constitutions that the whole political spectrum agree? It is our purpose for making, with the Drexel University Law Professor Lisa Tucker, a project we titled, “We hold these facts.” Our purpose is to have a different group of individuals who draft these principles, to release it in the fourth July, and use it for public education.
The first step is to recruit about 20 prominent people from across the ideological spectrum to volunteer their time to be part of the effort. When we arrived at people, we enjoyed the enthusiastic response.
Drapters include former Republican Govs. Christine Todd Whitman and Brian’s Sandoval. It includes prominent democrats such as Stacey Abrams, Pete Butigieg and Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin. The retirement of four star Army Gen. Wesley Clark and civil rights lawyer Sherrilyn Sherrilynn Sherrilynn Actils one of the first agrees to agree. We recrued a conservative minded court of the US appeal, Thomas B. Griffith, and a liberal one, David Tatel. The best-selling author Brad Raderzer includes the drafting group. We added prominent law professors, former Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh and New York University Proper Melissa Murray.
And we succeeded. In a bit of a month, we reached the unanimous agreement with a set of basic principles of democracy in American Constitution. We hope these principles remind us that what unites us as a nation, we maintained the cause of values, more than divided us.
We decided to focus on five places: the rule of law, democracy and election, separation of powers, personal freedoms, and uniformity. We are divided into five subgroups to work on these subjects and to perform the principles of the whole drafting group. There is the opportunity for answers and again.
The key, of course, is to do statements that are sufficient to be that they are not saucers, but also generally sufficient to be artian in basic qualities.
For the rule of law, we emphasize that to preserve liberty, fairness and strength in our democratic society, government power and other actors must be accountable.
All people, no matter their station, must stand equal before the law, subject to the same rules, protections, privileges and sanctions. The Rule of the Law requires the appropriate process, before the government is discarding any person in life, liberty or property, the individual must have a significant opportunity before an independent and neutral adjudicator. The law enforcement – investigations, accusations, apologies – need to be done according to the law, with respect to the executive personal or political interests.
And the rule of law cannot be preserved that there is no independent judiciary without interrupting executive or legislative branches of the government, neither see the demands of political parties.
For separating powers, we highlight a standard structural condition of the constitution, and the main protection of our liberty, separates the legislative, government executive they examine and balance the power of one another.
For democracy and elections, the important point is that one depends on another. We choose representatives to make the laws we have to follow. To succeed, the election should be transparent and fair.
A democratic society enforces voters to the greatest possible, making elections to access and unnecessary voting obstacements. Voter control is antithetical of democracy, and it is when eligible voters cannot register to vote, spread the ballot or with that ballot. Also, our constitutional republic depends on our shared commitment to peaceful transfer of power, accepting, honoring the candidate wins if our desired candidate wins if our desired candidate wins when the candidate wins Our desired candidate wins if our desired candidate wins if our desired candidate wins if our desired candidate wins.
Personal freedoms given to the whole constitution and many changes have been an important protection against government violence and showing the natural rights of each person in the United States.
Democracy depends on freedom of speaking and the press. The government has no right to intimidate or punish anyone based on their views and ideas. The Bill of Brith protected suspected crimes with the provisions who arrested the police and ensure the privilege of self-evaluation and providing for fair trials. Our society respects basic aspects of autonomy, including liberty to make important decisions about one’s life.
In the end, similarity is an introduction to freedom. We are all free if each of us, not only some of us, free from discrimination, separation and threat. Our differences are our strength, not our weakness. If the autocracy and authority of the consolidation authority, democracy appeals to the opposite – differences in people and opinions. Each person’s voice has the same amount of workplace, the public square and the booth voting. Equality of opportunity – in education, work and participation in our democracy – a right, not a privilege regardless of color, ethnicity, religion, religion or wealth. Government decisions about our lives must be free of discrimination, racism, prejudice, and enabling.
Readers find principles, starting with July 4, at www.wolholdtruths.com, 249 years after signing freedom declaration. Our hope is that Americans in every political combination strengthen these values, recognized that the government is, for humans – the best way to gain life, liberty and seeking happiness.
We’re not bad about what to achieve through this effort. But we strongly believe that there is a value to remind ourselves, in words of the declaration of freedom, the facts we hold.
Erwin Chermerinsky is the Dean of UC Berkeley School of Law and a contributing writer of opinion voices. J. Michael Luttig serves US Court of Appeals for 4th Circuit from 1991 to 2006; President George Hw Bush taught him.
