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Show - THE IMMORTAL BILL OF RIGHTS 1 The Bill of Rights is the brightest jewel in the crown of our American democracy Its story is an epic. Its memory mem-ory is an inspiration. Its document is immortal. It is the trumpet call to our highest fidelity. Like threads of gold and silver running through the history of the human race are the stories of man's battle for liberty liberty that has lifted mankind to its feet, from its feet to wings an d made people what God intended them to be free men and woman." The struggle began in Greece 25 cen-turiesago. cen-turiesago. It flames thiough the governme nts of Rome, sur vived the persecutions and infamies of the dark aes, bloomed in the Mapna Charta, the Mayflower Compact, the Hal eas Corpus Act, and came into full flowering in our Constitui ion ami the Bill of Rinhts. It will stand a;iaiis. everything except the wild sweep of moboctacy toward which events are tending. Men have gone to the stake for it, And scorched in the cannon's breath, And women havevrithed in torture , And welcomed the arms of death That it might be born, with flag unfurled To sprve and to save the the whole wide world. |